I would like to take this opportunity to address the ill-informed and distorted comments made by seventeen Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom in a video published by the “National Federation of Cypriots in the UK” on the anniversary of the 1974 Peace Operation in Cyprus. As it has become customary, the statements in […]
Turkey’s ‘Sultans of the Net’ advanced to the last four of the European Volleyball Championships with a convincing win over the Netherlands on Wednesday evening. Cheered on by 12,000 fans at the Ankara Sports Hall, the national women’s side put in a commanding performance to beat the much-fancied Dutch team in three straight sets. The […]
Turkey have made it through to the quarter-finals of the Women’s European Volleyball Championships following a hard-fought victory over Croatia in Ankara on Sunday. The national team scored a thrilling 3-2 win in a rollercoaster ride that lasted for more than two hours in front of 8,000 flag-waving spectators. Turkey won the first set of […]
A research team in Norway led by a Turkish scientist has shed new light on what could be happening to the human brain during an epileptic seizure – providing new hope for treatment. A study by the Yaksi group at Trondheim’s Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), headed by Professor Emre Yaksi, suggests that […]
On 14 August, 1974, Turkey commenced the second phase of its military intervention in Cyprus. The order was famously given in a coded message referring to the daughter of the then Foreign Affairs Minister Turan Güneş. “Tell Mr Güneş that Ayşe can go on holiday,” was the secret signal given by the late Turkish Prime […]
A 20-year-old man taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon following the stabbing of two women in Sydney, Australia, has been named by police as Mert Ney. He said to be Australian born and of Turkish Cypriot heritage. Ney was apprehended by three passers-by on Wynyard Street, in the city centre, who carried out a citizen’s […]
Ten men kidnapped while working on the Turkish-flagged ship Paksoy-1 that was sailing from Cameroon to the Ivory Coast have been freed. They were reconciled with their families after flying into Istanbul Airport earlier today, Sunday 11 August – the first day of Kurban Bayramı. The men, who are all in good health according to […]
Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots were united in condemnation of the European Union after the bloc announced a series of measures designed to punish Turkey over its drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) President Mustafa Akıncı, Prime Minister Ersin Tatar, Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret Özersay […]
Removing Turkey from the US-led F-35 stealth fighter jet programme will be bad for NATO, its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. The NATO chief made the comments on Wednesday, 17 July, the same day that the White House announced that Turkey’s continued involvement with the F-35 had been rendered “impossible”, just days after Ankara […]
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Akıncı has expressed his “regret” and “dismay” after Greek Cypriot political party leaders rejected his offer to work together to exploit potential offshore energy resources by claiming that a solution to the Cyprus problem must come first. Mr Akıncı accused the Greek Cypriot side of acting in […]
