Turkish Cypriots hosted a special gala event for the television debut of historical drama series Bir Zamanlar Kıbrıs/ Once Upon a Time in Cyprus, which stars leading Turkish actors Ahmet Kural, Pelin Karahan, Serkan Çayoğlu, and Tayanç Ayaydın. The cast and the Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay jetted in for the occasion earlier this evening, […]
Tributes have been paid to a British political scientist, author and staunch supporter of the Turkish Cypriot people, who has died aged 93. Professor Clement Dodd was an expert on Turkish politics and the Cyprus issue and published a number of books about Cyprus during his career including The Cyprus Imbroglio, Disaccord on Cyprus: The […]
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 […]
A group of British MPs, who can broadly be described as “the usual suspects”, have all recently fallen over themselves to repeat, parrot fashion, every piece of Greek Cypriot propaganda ever invented since 1974, when the Turkish Army legally intervened in Cyprus under the terms of the Treaty of Guarantee. Balance dictates the necessity to […]
A group of British MPs have sparked outrage among the Turkish Cypriot community in the UK and its supporters after taking part in a Greek Cypriot “propaganda” video. Parliamentarians from the Conservative Party, Labour Party, Scottish National Party (SNP), Liberal Democrats and The Independent Group for Change were slammed after they recorded messages for a […]
Fifty five years ago today, the United Nations (UN) Security Council passed a resolution, the ramifications of which continues to be felt decades later. Three years after the independence of Cyprus from British rule, leaders of the Greek Cypriot community initiated their notorious Akritas Plan, which aimed to overthrow the power-sharing arrangement between themselves and […]
He is described as “one of the greatest documentary photographers of our time.” Earlier this month, a major retrospective of Sir Don McCullin opened at the Tate Britain in London. This exhibition showcases some of the most impactful photographs captured over the last 60 years. It includes many of his iconic war photographs – including […]
A Turkish Cypriot woman whose grief-stricken photograph during the Cyprus Conflict made international headlines has passed away. The funeral of Nevcihan Oluşum will take place today in her native Gaziveren in North Cyprus. Mrs Oluşum inadvertently became the face of the Turkish Cypriot struggle during 11-year Cyprus Conflict when she was snapped in 1964 […]
A new book in English has captured the enormous struggle Turkish Cypriots faced as they defended their strategically key coastal village for thirteen years in Northern Cyprus. Against the odds, they survived. The Battle of Kokkina captures this fascinating true story from the eyes of Fadıl Elmasoğlu, a young man who lived through the […]
Dear T-VINE, I am a Greek Cypriot citizen living in the Greek Cypriot part of Cyprus (South). I am writing to you because I want relations between Turkey and the Greek Cypriot part of Cyprus to be better. Don’t forget that we are all humans and we must respect each other, to have love for […]
