Now in its fifteenth year, the Dawn Vigil (Şafak Nöbeti in Turkish) bears extra significance this July as it commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Turkiye’s vital intervention in Cyprus on 20 July 1974 to liberate Turkish Cypriots and bring peace to the island. Ferhat Göçer, one of Turkiye’s biggest pop stars behind hits such as […]
The President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Ersin Tatar attended this year’s Dawn Vigil (Şafak Nöbeti in Turkish) to commemorate the brave Turkish soldiers who came to the aid of Turkish Cypriots 49 years ago. Turkiye’s vital military intervention on 20 July, five days after by far-right Greek Cypriot nationalists staged a coup, […]
The organisers of North Cyprus’ annual Şafak Nöbeti, or Dawn Vigil, have released details for this year’s event. Now in its fourteenth year, this poignant commemoration event allows members of the public to gather on the Girne beach where Turkish troops first landed in the early hours of 20 July 1974 and to recall their […]
This year’s Peace and Freedom Day, celebrated annually on 20 July, will be a more subdued affair following the foiled military coup in Turkey last week, which left at least 290 people dead. Details of the revised programme, released earlier today, show many official events have been cancelled. A national holiday in Cyprus, 20 Temmuz […]
North Cyprus’ commemorations of Turkey’s vital 1974 intervention got underway with its annual Dawn Watch (Şafak Nöbeti). Thousands of people of all ages turned up at Yavuz Çıkarma Plajı in Girne – the beach where Turkish troops first landed in the early hours of 20 July 1974 – to remember the bravery of those troops […]
Record numbers are expected to turn out for tonight’s Şafak Nöbeti (Dawn Watch), the annual remembrance event at Yavuz Çıkarma Plajı in Girne – the beach where Turkish troops first landed in 1974. This year not only marks the fifth such event, but will also commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Turkish intervention that brought to an […]
