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Letters, Kemal Baykallı’s advice to the new Greek Cypriot leader “undermines Turkish Cypriot equality”

Dear T-VINE, I was dismayed to read your recent article about the advice Turkish Cypriot activist Kemal Baykallı gives to the newly elected leader in South Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides (Unite Cyprus Now co-founder Kemal Baykallı offers some words of advice for new Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christ...

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Letters, We expect better from someone who aspires to lead this great nation, Mr Sunak

Dear T-VINE, Following on from your article about the one-sided position Rishi Sunak has taken over Cyprus, (‘Rishi Sunak accused of “anti-Turkish bias” after his letter on Cyprus made public’, 14 Aug. 2022), we would appreciate you publishing this open letter to Conservative Party leadership candid...

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Letters, an apology is not enough, those responsible for racist Met training must be sacked!

Dear T-VINE,  It is good that the Metropolitan Police has apologised to British Turks, but it is not good enough! This matter should be thoroughly investigated, and from the writer(s) of this racist training material to those who approved it, everyone responsible should be sacked because this...

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Letters, Channel 4’s Travel Man on Cyprus “feeds into the inaccurate, biased, and racist narrative of the Greek Cypriot regime”

Dear T-VINE, Please can you publish this open letter to UK broadcast authority OFCOM and Channel 4 about the “Cyprus” episode of Channel 4's Travel Man?   Dear OFCOM & Channel 4, As a British Turkish Cypriot, I was extremely disappointed to see Channel 4 air some very damaging,...

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Letters, Turkey on the Red list – Grant Shapps’ “system is unfair, biased and not transparent enough”

Dear T-VINE, The British Turks Solidarity Platform has felt compelled to write to the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps over his recent decision to yet again keep Turkey on the UK’s Covid-19 high-risk Red category This is what we said to him. Dear Secretary of State, The British government’s...

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Letters, Jeremy Corbyn: your denial of attempted genocide of Muslim Turkish Cypriots is wholly unacceptable

Dear T-VINE, I am a Turkish Cypriot constituent of Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn. I would appreciate it if you could publish this open letter to him about his appearance on Euro Genc TV last month on a programme about the future of Cyprus. Dear Mr Corbyn, I am writing to you as a constit...

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Letters, cancer survivor appeals for Brain Tumour charity skydive support

Dear T-VINE, I am writing to update you on my skydiving event that was due to take place last year (Cancer survivor Ayse-Gul Ismail set to skydive for The Brain Tumour Charity, 14 August 2020). Unfortunately due to the poor weather conditions, the skydive got cancelled. It’s taken a while for...

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Letters, Dear Sir Keir, Labour can’t help Cyprus achieve peace with “inflammatory, uneducated” views

Dear T-VINE,   Please publish this open letter to Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party.   Dear Sir Keir, I write to you in dismay, following the letter sent to Dominic Raab from Shadow Ministers Fabian Hamilton and Catherine West (“Labour only cares about Greek Cypri...

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Letters, Appalling conditions in TRNC quarantine centre

Dear T-VINE, I arrived in Northern Cyprus on 1 January 2021 and I anticipated that I would be under quarantine conditions for 10 days in the location chosen for me by the relevant TRNC authorities. I did not expect, however, to be dumped in some smoking den in Nicosia. I cannot breathe, I cannot res...

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Letters, The origins of the town name ‘Varosha’ is Turkish

Dear T-VINE, I read with interest the recent article on the partial re-opening of Varosha (Historic partial re-opening of Varosha attracts hundreds, but ramifications go beyond collapse of TRNC coalition government, 9 June 2020), and thought your readers would be interested in the origins of the...

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