A British Turkish Cypriot film director has set out to do what has rarely been done before: to produce a balanced and comprehensive account of the Cyprus conflict. Arriving in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1974 War, Cey Sesigüzel’s new 90-minute film The Divided Island uses archive footage, expert commentary, and testimony from […]
All around us people of all ages are being diagnosed with cancer and for those in the prime of their lives, it can be really difficult to process both emotionally and physically. For many, dealing with cancer can initially also be a lonely journey, which has prompted one British Turkish Cypriot battling colorectal cancer to […]
Formed in 2018 by Eda Ayyildiz, Ceyhun Sesiguzel and Emre Gurler, the BTCP is on a mission “to improve and expand the social and professional lives of British Turkish Cypriot professionals in the UK.” The BTCP team have already hosted multiple events that have the perfect mix of socialising with business networking, enjoyed over a […]
Ever since its launch in 2017, the Turkish Cypriot Cultural Festival in North London has become an important annual fixture in the British Turkish social calendar. With its live music, DJs, comedy sketches, folk dancing, delicious food and drinks, craft and community group stalls, children’s face painting, funfair rides and even donkey rides, this family-friend […]
Many violent events occurred in the final years of British colonial rule in Cyprus, but one of the worst – and least known – is the slaughter of seven Turkish Cypriot civilians and the wounding of dozens of others by British troops on 27 and 28 January 1958. This shocking event would have a pivotal […]
Buse Savaşkan broke Turkiye’s national indoor record for the high jump on Friday evening with a career-best jump of 1.91 metres at a High Jump event in Wuppertal, Germany. The international meet brought together Olympic standard high jumpers, with Savaşkan coming third in the women’s event behind German Christina Honsel, who won with a jump […]
Poppy Plowman is a British circus artist with Turkish Cypriot roots. In April, for one night only, she will be performing an autobiographical piece called Turk(ish) at Jacksons Lane theatre in Highgate. Combining live music, contemporary circus and storytelling, Poppy uses her diverse talents to discuss personal struggles of identity and Western beauty standards. About […]
A trial into whether the owners of Isias Hotel in Adıyaman are culpable after it collapsed killing 72 people — including a group of schoolchildren from North Cyprus — following a massive earthquake in southeast Turkiye last February, has got underway. TRNC Prime Minister Ünal Üstel is among a delegation of some one hundred Turkish […]
Professor Ibrahim Benter’s term as the Director-General of Kıbrıs Vakıflar İdaresi has come to an end. The TRNC Council of Ministers called time on Benter’s decade in charge of the oldest Turkish Cypriot institute, naming Professor Mustafa Tümer (top right) as his replacement. The details were announced in the Official Gazette last week. Kıbrıs Vakıflar […]
British Turkish Cypriots have staged a poignant vigil to remember the 133 victims killed by Greek Cypriots when they mounted a brutal coup on 21 December 1963. A group of about 30 people assembled outside the Greek Cypriot High Commission on St James’s Square, central London, on Thursday evening to protest their government’s refusal to […]
