The body of a 15th victim of the Filo Jet ferry disaster has been recovered from the wreck off Girne, as the painstaking underwater search continues and investigators examine evidence suggesting part of the vessel had been damaged and repaired months before the tragedy.TRNC Prime Minister Ünal Üstel...
More than 100 people gathered in central London for a special screening of DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story, followed by a Q&A with the documentary’s creators.The event, held at the Soho Hotel on Friday, 18 September, came just over a month after the testimony-led film was released and attract...
Formula 1 returns to Azerbaijan at the end of September, when some of the world’s fastest drivers take on the spectacular and notoriously unpredictable streets of Baku.The 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix will be staged on Saturday, 26 September, a day earlier than the traditional Sunday race slot. The ch...
Fifteen Turkish Cypriot victims of the 1974 massacre at Atlılar, including a baby just 40 days old and another aged 16 months, have finally been laid to rest under their own names, 52 years after they were killed.The victims, whose remains were identified following work by the Committee on Missing P...
Former Haringey deputy leader says message urging demonstrators to make ‘as much noise as we can’ raises fresh questions following alleged intimidation of women attending council meetingTurkish Cypriot campaigner and former Haringey Labour deputy leader Emine Ibrahim (pictured top) has called for a...
Organisations working to protect people from corporate abuses have lost an average of 40% of their funding in just two years, according to a new global survey, with one in eight warning they could be forced to close.The findings, published on Wednesday, 16 September, come from a survey by Swedish hu...
A cross-party group of 52 British parliamentarians has urged the UK Government to intervene over Türkiye’s escalating crackdown on LGBT people and organisations, calling on Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband to condemn the detentions, raise the issue directly with Ankara and consider summoning the Turkis...
London’s Turkish football community will come together this Sunday for the traditional season-opening Community Shield, which this year will be played in memory of the late Turkish Cypriot businessman Münir Tatar.Organised by the Turkish Community Football Federation (TCFF), the match will see reign...
Dozens of people have been detained across Türkiye in a major police operation targeting LGBT organisations and activists, prompting fresh concern over human rights and the increasingly restrictive climate for civil society in the country.At least 47 people were detained in coordinated raids over th...
Türkiye and Bulgaria are pressing ahead with plans for a new border checkpoint exclusively for heavy goods vehicles in an effort to relieve chronic congestion at Kapıkule–Kapitan Andreevo, one of the world’s busiest land crossings.Officials from the two neighbouring countries inspected the proposed...
