Turkish airport operator TAV Airports is set to become the sole owner of Almaty International Airport after agreeing to purchase the remaining 15% stake in Kazakhstan’s largest and busiest airport for $133 million. TAV pursued the deal though its Dutch subsidiary Aviator Netherlands B.V., incre...
Presented by British Turkish Cypriot journalist Mert Ahmet, the testimony-led film follows 12 survivors through three turbulent decades of violence, displacement and loss on the divided Mediterranean island.A powerful new documentary recounting the Cyprus conflict through the experiences of Turkish...
British Turkish Cypriot judoka Acelya Toprak has been crowned Commonwealth champion after winning gold for England in the women’s under-57kg competition at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.The South London athlete went one better than at Birmingham 2022, where she had to settle for silver, to sec...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has concluded a rare visit to Cyprus by announcing plans for a new expanded meeting aimed at preparing the ground for the resumption of formal negotiations on the island’s future.The visit – the first by a serving UN secretary-general in more than 16...
A family in Aydınköy, North Cyprus, has been struck by a second devastating road tragedy after an 85-year-old mother died from injuries sustained when she was hit by a reversing vehicle – nearly seven years after her son and daughter-in-law were killed in a high-speed collision.Necibe Yılmaz passed...
Greek Cypriot legal action over property in North Cyprus has reportedly entered a new and potentially far-reaching phase after a Turkish Cypriot diplomat was served with a court summons concerning the past sale of a property with an exchange title deed.Yasa Yeşilada, a Turkish Cypriot diplomat based...
Barking MP Nesil Caliskan has left her junior ministerial role at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government after serving for just over two months.Caliskan, of Turkish Cypriot descent and a former leader of Enfield Council, was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State on 12 M...
From teenage Labour activist and Cabinet minister to “King of the North”, Andy Burnham has taken a long and sometimes winding route to 10 Downing Street. Here are ten key facts about the man who became Britain’s new Prime Minister on 20 July 2026.1. His return to Westminster was remarkably swiftAt t...
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has congratulated Andy Burham for becoming the new British Prime Minister (PM). In the letter to PM Burnham, the Azerbaijani leader emphasised “the comprehensive development of Azerbaijan-United Kingdom relations based on rich and good traditions”, inc...
The United Nations has announced today that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be travelling to Cyprus at the end of the month to help advance negotiations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reunite the island. Rumours about a possible Guterres visit had been circulating for the past we...
