Baby Asya Polatlı has received potentially lifesaving gene therapy treatment in a South Cyprus hospital earlier today. The one-year-old toddler is being kept overnight at the Makarios Children’s Hospital in South Nicosia for observation after being administered Zolgensma, a pioneering one-time tr...
Turkey emerged with all three points from Monday night’s drama-filled game against Latvia in their Group G qualifier. The win – the first for new manager Stefan Kuntz’s since replacing Şenol Güneş in September – keeps Turkey’s hopes of qualifying for the Qatar World Cup in November 2022 alive....
Community leaders and British Turkish Cypriot politicians have hit out at the British High Commission in Nicosia for failing to include Turkish Cypriots in the Queen’s Baton Relay, which will be touring southern Cyprus this weekend to promote the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Baroness Me...
This Friday marks the start of four days of qualifying matches for European nations competing for a place at the Qatar World Cup that starts in November next year. Turkey, Azerbaijan and the four British nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all in action, with many of the ga...
Two Turkish Cypriot sisters booked to fly on Emirates airline to the United Arab Emirates from Cyprus last month have complained of ‘discrimination’ and ‘racist abuse’ by the airline’s check-in staff at Larnaca Airport. Nilufer and Gulnaz Nejmi want to see the staff members responsible for the al...
The British High Commission in Nicosia has issued a statement concerning new procedures from the Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus affecting British nationals in North Cyprus. From 1 October 2021, those living in or visiting the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus can cross freely across a...
The number of Members of Parliament in the German National Assembly, or Bundestag, whose roots are from Turkey has increased. Preliminary results from Sunday’s General Election show there are a total of 18 MPs with Turkish and Turkish-Kurdish roots, up from 14 in 2017, the Anadolu Agency (AA) rep...
The Manhattan skyline has a new addition: Turkish House / Türkevi, which was officially opened on Monday by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The 36-floor building, located across the street to the United Nations headquarters, will be home to Turkey’s permanent mission to the UN, the Turkish Consul...
On the eve of the Cyprus talks at the United Nations in New York, Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar will be buoyed by the results of a new survey about the type of political model Turkish Cypriots view as “most realistic” to resolve the long-running dispute. The most popular response by a long w...
The newly published Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 includes two universities from the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC), Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) and debutant Near East University (NEU). The two universities are listed under “Northern Cyprus”, while thre...
