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The Ada Işık Children's Choir, the Ada Işık Youth Vocal Group and the Faces of the Island Children's Choirs, which are affiliated to the Cyprus Polyphonic Choirs Association, will perform two Island Evening Concerts as part of the 1st June Children's Day activities. The first concert will be at the Nicosia Rauf Denktaş University Cultural Centre on Friday 2nd JuneThe second will be held on 6th June at the Famagusta Rauf Raif Denktaş Culture and Congress Palace. Both concerts will begin at 19.00.  Entrance is 100TL and tickets can be obtained from the box office at the concert venues. Source (Turkish): Kültür Dai̇resi̇ Müdürlüğü  https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/31/1st-june-childrens-day-concerts-on-2nd-and-6th-june/

The play named "Diary of a Madman" staged by the Girne Municipality Theatre Group had its last screening on Sunday, May 28. There was great interest in the play, which was performed at the İskele Municipality Atatürk Cultural Center.  Ömer Dündar acted in the play directed by Ismihan Yorgancı, one of the directors of Girne Municipality Theatre Group. Ufuk Aydogan was the music director. While İkra Yalçın took played the original music on the piano, Mehmet Saygıer did the lighting design and Cem Taşlıovalı did the décor design and application. Ulaş Baran Şahin and Yusuf Aşık were the stage managers, while Batuhan Oruç did the photo shoots and Eseli Fatma Tüney did the make-up. Two Russian Plays To Be Performed Girne Municipality Theatre Group continues to work on children's and adult plays that will be staged in various languages in the new season, as of June, with various domestic and foreign theatre teams operating within its body. The children's play “Pippi - ...

The painting exhibition and competition, themed "Smoke-Free Life, Healthy Life",  featuring the works of all the children participating is being organized by the Ministry of Health Primary Health Services Department on the occasion of the 8th of February smoking cessation day. It is being held at 6:30 p.m. on May 31, 2023, at Ismet Vehit Güney. Source (Turkish): Kültür Dai̇resi̇ Müdürlüğü  https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/31/smoke-free-life-childrens-competition/

By Trevor Hughes.... Probate Those family members who are involved in the probate procedure will quickly realise, to leave this mortal world, is far more involved than joining it. Something you may want to consider when drawing up a Will, especially if the executor does not live here and may struggle with trying to unravel this complicated procedure! The only solicitor I would recommend is the one who undertook the procedure for my wife. He made the procedure very straight forward and made it extremely simple to execute, which was completed in just 17 weeks. Remember. Were there’s a Will, there’s a relative. Retrieval of Recorded Wills If you need to retrieve your Will from the Registrar’s Office, you will need to go personally to her Office, taking with you your passport (if you have changed your passport since the will was first registered, take your old passport as well) and your registration number. She will go through her archives and return it to you in a matter of ...

Readers mail…. From Susie L Ford (MAYHEM).... We had a packed house at Hati’s Cafe in Esentepe on Saturday 27th May 2023 for our latest Mayhem show and we raised 4,044.00 TL for Tulips and we had an amazing crowd, singing along with us and clapping and dancing to make it a special night to remember. Hati served lovely mezes, various breads, chicken shish, chips,  desserts, trifles, tiramisu, lemon cakes, and chocolate cakes all of which were absolutely perfect We had a raffle with some great prizes including a barbeque set, bed set, wines,  gin, jewellery, a lovely purse plus breakfast for 4 people at Hati’s Cafe, and more!  We also auctioned off a rather large teddy bear who we called Mayhem and thank you to Chris Watson for adopting him and you now have a friend for life! Our Mayhem team would like to say a big “WELL, DONE” to you all for helping us make it a very successful and memorable night.   We would also like to say a big thank you to Hati and her team who all worked...

By Chris Elliott….. Let’s talk about Archery....... It’s been some weeks now since I was struggling and NIck Gough of Lambousa Archers suggested I seek second opinions and some “one-for-one” coaching which I did from the Girne Archery Club and whilst there was no overnight miracle it helped me focus my mind on my problems and concentrate on analysing them and finding solutions. One problem I have had is setting up the sight on my bow and even though a number of people adjusted my sight for me as Ayse Tez at Girne Hunting Shooting Sports Club Archery Team said, "We can't see what you see", so I have been working on that since I went to a recent archery competition where after lagging behind due to poor sight settings, slowly after shooting 6 sets of 6 arrows at 30m I started to get the distance right and getting the wooden spoon for my efforts in my group and that’s where the hard work started. Since then, I have been trying to shoot daily in my garden recording sight ...

A ceremony was held in front of Girne Municipality for Aydın Aygın, one of the retired directors of Girne Municipality. Girne Mayor Murat Şenkul, Girne Municipality Councillors, municipal administrators and staff, as well as former Mayor Nidai Güngördü and the deceased's family and relatives attended the ceremony held for Aygın who died on May 24. At the ceremony Mayor of Girne, Murat Şenkul, the deceased's daughter, Oya Aygın and Nidai Güngördü made speeches. Source (Turkish): Girne Municipality   https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/28/ceremony-held-for-aydin-aygin/

The second of the Antakya Civilizations Choir "Sings for Champion Angels" concerts by the Antakya Civilizations Choir came to life at the Girne Amphitheatre.  The concert, which was organized under the auspices of the TRNC Prime Ministry by the Champion Angels Survival Association, the Ancient Famagusta Foundation and the Academy Art Association, and with the contributions of Girne Municipality and Famagusta Municipality, was strongly attended. The concert, which was held with the aim of commemorating the Champion Angels who lost their lives in the earthquake disaster that took place in Turkey on February 6, witnessed emotional moments. Antakya Civilizations Choir, which took the stage under the direction of Conductor, Yılmaz Özfirat, were on the stage for about an hour and a half with their beautiful pieces. The entire income of the concerts, which took place in Famagusta and Kyrenia on two days, was donated to the Champion Angels Survival Association. Antakya Civilizati...

According to the election calendar of the Supreme Election Board (YSK) regarding the Parliamentary and Local Organization Bodies Midterm Elections to be held on 25 June 2023, pre-election restrictions have began on 26 May 2023. The last day for political parties to nominate their candidates is Monday, May 29 while the deadline for candidate applications is May 31. The election campaign will be ended on Saturday, June 24 and voters will go to the polls on Sunday, June 25. Source: TRNC Public Information Office https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/28/trnc-pre-election-restrictions-begin/

TRNC Minister of Health, İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra, attended the 5th meeting of the Ministers of Health of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Geneva as an observer member.  The 5th Health Ministers' meeting of ECO, of which Türkiye, Iran, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan are members, was hosted by Azerbaijan at the UN Geneva Office on the margins of the 76th World Health Assembly. In her speech, Minister Altuğra stated that they were honoured to be able to attend the meeting as the TRNC. Source: TRNC Public Information Office https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/28/trnc-at-eco-meeting-in-geneva/

KKSD /ACPA Workshop with ECO Age 60+ at Girne University with various Techniques to make Jewellery from Paper By Heidi Trautmann…. The Association of Cyprus Paper Artists was invited to hold a workshop for the ECOAGE Group 60 +years of the Girne University within the framework of their refresher courses. What is ECOAGE, you may be asking. On the Certificate of Appreciation awarded to our Association for this workshop, you may read some more details about it. So far, I have learnt that it is based on an international idea and I shall report on it more closely when I have gathered more information. ECOAGE 60 + is a group of 40 members all over 60 years of age and we found them sitting and waiting for us in a classroom, expecting to learn from us how to make jewellery from paper. The project was based on a suggestion by our artist Ismet Tatar offered to and discussed with the coordinator and leader of the group Emete Toros. Furthermore, Inci Kansu, and other members of ACPA have j...

The Turkish Flour Industrialists' Federation (TUSAF) is an umbrella non-governmental body for organizations from all over Turkey serving in the flour sector. Its objectives are the development of solution-oriented strategies, which has created the export leader of the world for the last 9 years.  TUSAF, held the 17th annual  international congress and exhibition at Elexus Hotel, Girne to showcase its sector stakeholders as well as the country and the world flour industry. This world flour trade summit  will contribute to the more efficient use of the heritage that Anatolia has given and will increase the wheat yield and quality. The theme was "Technological Transformations in Production and Global Risks". The  congress hosted more than 1000 national and international delegates, bringing together flour, pasta and feed industrialists, traders, suppliers, milling machinery and bakery product manufacturers, expert panellists and managers, officials from public institutions ...

Introduction by Chris Elliott…. For over 10 years we have been operating the CyprusScene website which publishes news and reviews sent to us and is shared on many social media pages plus some are copied into our regular online CyprusScene e-newspaper and podcasts channels. Now to achieve this it's important to have very good internet service and on occasions when the was a disaster looming we found Multimax was very quick to respond to help get us back online and publishing so reading the following email from Multimax, we feel that they are trying very hard to give the best service possible to their customers.   Multimax news sent to customers on 25th May 2023. "We are about to finalize the series of upgrades to our network that we have started in beginning of May. This has been the single biggest work that we had to carry out and there has been some expected but also a lot of unexpected issues. As of today, we believe we have finally ironed out all upgrade related iss...

A book launch has been held at the Presidency for “The Vision for Two States in Cyprus” penned by Foreign Press Officer and Member of the Negotiating Team, Kerem Haser, documenting TRNC President Ersin Tatar’s first two years in office The English language book titled “The Vision for Two States in Cyprus” documents TRNC President Ersin Tatar’s first two years in office, following his election in October 2020. Penned by foreign press officer and member of the negotiating team, Kerem Haser, the 502 page book features three main sections.  First is the introductory section, concise history of the Cyprus issue, and a brief biography of the President.   The second section documents chronological events, news and statements of the President and the negotiating team, headed by Special Representative of the President, M. Ergün Olgun.  The third part comprises some of the media and news reports about the President and his interviews reported in international media – including columns and ar...

Introduction by Chris Elliott.... I have been very happy to be able to support the work of Oz Orman by helping to share and promote the videos he has produced for MPFC Productions, many of which are about Cyprus heritage, and the most recent one was the concluding episode about the Talia Airways Air Crash near Buffavento castle and following this, our group of supporters became aware that relatives of the late Andrea Pegg were visiting Cyprus and wanted to pay their respects at the new Talia Airways Memorial. We then received a copy of a message of thanks from Tanya Mullins the sister of Andrea Pegg to Oz Orman telling him she had been able to visit the memorial. "Good Evening Oz We had a lovely week in Cyprus and I visited the memorial at Buffavento.  Fate had us sit next to an English gentleman on the plane whom we befriended.  He lives in Paphos and drove me all the way to Buffavento Castle. It was an emotional day, unfortunately, my mum was not up to making the jou...

The "Born Again with Atatürk” youth concert organized by the Deputy Prime Minister's Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Environment Culture Department to celebrate the 19 May Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day was held on 19th May.   Organized under the auspices of the Culture Department, the concert by the Young Talents Production Youth Orchestra under the baton of Conductor, Ersin Kaşif, was enjoyed by a large art-loving audience including President Ersin Tatar, the Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hasan Taçoy, the Director of the Department of Culture, Şirin Zaimağaoğlu and the Director of the Youth Department, Hakan Özsaygın. . The concert started with an opening speech by the Director of the Culture Department, Şirin Zaimağaoğlu, in which she read the poem titled Thanks to Poet Orhan Şaik Gökyay, which tells about Atatürk and his revolutions. In her speech, Zaimağaoğlu congratulated the young musicians in the orchestra, reminding them that Atat...

Readers mail .... From Susie L Ford.... Well, you could not fit much more in Hati’s Cafe with SuMart’s Karaoke on Saturday 20th May 2023 with all the karaoke singers and their friends grabbing their seats and it was packed and absolutely banging! We had excellent singing and dancing and there was a really good atmosphere which we all enjoyed. To make our night extra special we had wonderful meze, chips, and a selection of bread with chicken shish specially cooked by Hati and it was great with that very special service that comes with it so thank you Hati for looking after us so well. Thank you all  for joining us and we will be at Hati’s Café every Saturday night @ 7.30 pm so please book your table and meal to avoid disappointment  Until next the Karaoke Night SUSIE Q Xxxx         https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/22/sumarts-karaoke-at-hatis-cafe-on-20th-may-2023/

Girne Municipality organized an educational and entertainment event for university students as part of the 19 May Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day. The one-day event, which was held under the title of 'UniCamp', took place in Girne Municipality Nature Park. The event, which started at 13:00 on Friday, 19 May, continued until 20:00 on the same day. The “Unicamp” event,  in which students between the ages of 18-22 from 5 universities in the Girne region participated free of charge, included the students of Arkın Creative Arts and Design University, Final International University, Girne American University, Girne University, and Cyprus Science University. The event hosted special activities. The health services for students were provided by Kolan British Hospital.  Within the spirit of the 19 May Commemoration of Atatürk and Youth and Sports Day, 'UniCamp', students enjoyed a day full of education and activities such as first aid in nature, yoga, and breath...

We are sharing for readers who are seeking the latest facts and information with the approval of the BRS, news recently provided by the British Residents’ Society to their members on 21st May 2023. Please note this campaign is open to 'All UK citizens' even if they are not registered to vote in the UK, their letters/emails will go automatically to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and they can participate as detailed below.. From Peter Wilkins BRS President As you will remember our lobbying campaign began with an article in Cyprus Today written by Stephen Day, an ex-MP and Chairman of the BRS, asking us to challenge the UK Government's stance on the TRNC and remove the measures which isolate every inhabitant of this island..  We have just received a letter from Stephen which I have copied below. At our AGM, which is being held next Saturday 27th May 2023, we will be announcing Phase 2 of the Campaign.  We will be releasing details of how you, our members together ...

By Richard Beale…. For the second season in succession, Esentepe failed in the Play-Offs, the fat lady has stopped singing and the final curtain has come down. Once again Esentepe has suffered heartache in the Play-Offs and they are becoming perennial bridesmaids. Results: ESENTEPE KKSK 1 PERA L. GENÇLER BİRLİĞİ SK 2 Wednesday, May 17, 2023: AKSA League 1, Play Offs second match. Paşaköy Hasan Onat Stadium. Weather: Warm with a slight breeze. Esentepe has had a tremendous season, finishing in the League in 3rd place and ending the campaign with a magnificent 17-match unbeaten run. Unfortunately, in the Play-Offs' they could not re-create their League form, something was missing, the spark, it seemed they just ran out of steam they didn’t do themselves justice. Maybe part of the reason was they were missing one of their best players midfielder Emre Mutlu who had been called up for his Nation Service. One man doesn’t make a team but we definitely missed his combativeness an...

Readers mail …. From Susie L Ford ….. Quiz mistress …. Hello Readers, We had another banging night for Susie’s Quiz at the Diiva Restaurant, Esentepe on Thursday, 18th May 2023 when we had lots of quizzers joining us for a night of fun and games. The rounds consisted of: Easy 5, Multiple Choice, Danger Zone, Tabletop, Music Round, Letter Round which this week was Sexy Trivia, and of course Bump and EBP! The results were: - 1st           Dunne N Dusted - 2nd          The Foundations - 3rd           Here’s Johnny - 4th           The Shebells - 5th           El-Cidd - And the famous Lemon went to the Clueless Lemons! We had a great atmosphere with lots of tasty food plus lots of laughs so thank you all for joining us. Thank you to Linda Lamb and Malcolm Gannaway for their continuous help and not forgetting Ali Raza and his team for looking after us so well so a final big Thank You to them as well.  See you all next week and weather permitting we should be o...

Mustafa Çağatay Primary School students visited Girne Municipality to learn about the organisational structure and functioning of Girne Municipality.  During the visit, which lasted approximately one hour, the students were accompanied by the Girne Municipality Social Affairs Supervisor, Serdar Tuksal, who gave information about the Municipality of Girne.  The students gathered at the Girne Municipality Assembly Meeting Room upon the completion of the tour and were informed about the City Council and the process of making decisions.  At the end of the trip, the students met with the Mayor of Girne, Murat Şenkul, and posed for a photo. There are important issues  The students, who took the floor at the Girne Municipality Assembly Meeting Hall, directed their questions to the municipality employees. Questions such as  “When will the Girne Tourism Port open?”, “Are there any disabled personnel working in the municipality?”, “Are the seas of Girne clean?”, “When will the street lighti...

Readers mail… From Susie L Ford… This was our 1st Karaoke night at the Moonshine Restaurant in Esentepe and it was a great night on Tuesday 16th May for SuMart’s Entertainment! We had old and new faces who came to entertain us with their singing and also great dancing and it was lovely to be working outside too now that the evenings are warming up. We are there at Moonshine every Tuesday night at 7.30 pm and there is a menu for those that want to have an evening meal as well as enjoying the entertainment. Thank you to Mehmet and Furkan  Bilir for hosting us and a big thank you to you Karaoke singers for joining us and making it a very special evening. Martin and I are looking forward to seeing you again soon. SUSIE Q Xxxx                                         https://cyprusscene.com/2023/05/18/sumarts-16th-may-karaoke-at-the-moonshine-restaurant/