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Operational Partition: How Ankara Is Engineering Irreversibility in the Occupied North of Cyprus

by Shay Gal The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of SigmaLive. This piece...

Tufan Erhurman sworn in as Turkish Cypriot leader

Tufan Erhurman was officially sworn in on Friday as Turkish Cypriot leader during a brief ceremony at the occupied north’s ‘parliament’. The event was attended...

Israel: No entry for Turkish humanitarian mission to Gaza

Jerusalem links access to return of Israeli hostage remains Israel has refused to allow a Turkish rescue mission to enter the Gaza Strip until Hamas...

Turkey backs occupied ‘parliament’ vote for two-state solution

Turkey has welcomed the decision by the so-called “parliament” of the breakaway administration in the occupied north to approve a resolution in favour of...

ON THIS DAY: Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey (1923)

On 13 October 1923, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey officially declared Ankara the capital of the Republic of Turkey, replacing Constantinople (now Istanbul)...

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