By Engin Dervişağa……. Two wonderful people who were the founders of the Facebook page Frozen Cypriots have been back in their homeland discovering more of our Cyprus Heritage and in my Vox Pop show I went with my camera team to the Buyuk Han in Lefkosa to meet them and a fascinating group of people […]
A ceremony was held yesterday to commemorate the 126 people who were killed by the Greek Cypriot terrorist organization EOKA on 14 August 1974 in the villages of Muratağa, Sandallar and Atlılar.
By Ralph Kratzer…… The Classic Film Evenings at The Food Lodge Bakery and Bistro in Catalköy continue and have become a regular popular event! The owners Sonja and Latifa just sent me the latest programme for August.
We give below details of the films which are being shown at the Starlux Cinema, Karaoğlanoğlu for week commencing Friday 18th August 2017 until Thursday 24th August 2017.
Have you ever sat and watched Strictly Come Dancing and thought, hey I would like to try that, looks like fun…… from Jive to Salsa, Waltz to Rumba, etc, etc …..well, here’s your chance!
Hello Rotarians and friends of Rotary ….. It’s only a couple of months until our 1st Golf Tournament at CMC Golf Course near Lefke on Saturday and Sunday 14th and 15th October. This is in aid of projects at the Yesilyurt Special Needs School and the students from the school will be having a mini […]
If you have local community news about entertainment, sport or perhaps you would like to have a readers letter published if we think it will be of interest to our readers, do please send us details through the contact form below and we will contact you to obtain pictures and posters when needed.
EVENTS
Please send us details of your local events so these can be shared with other local readers who may also wish to go along to these events.
These events are published in an article every week on cyprusscene and also northcyprusforum to maximise the outreach of our readers’ contributions.
We also share this event news in northcyprusforum members events calendar which gives location details and events published there by members are then shared back through the next weekly events calender that is shared on cyprusscene and northcyprusforum
NEWS and REVIEWS
Please send us details of your local news with a few pictures and we will try to publish and share this on cyprusscene and northcyprusforum .
Perhaps you may like to write a review of a local event or subject that will be of interest to our other readers and we can work with you to help you develop your contribution into a quality publication.
FINDING LOST FRIENDS
We have had many people write to us asking for help in finding long lost Cyprus friends and if you click on the picture of Margaret and Sermen you will read a great true life story.
When Sermen asked how can I find a long lost friend, we said write about her and he did and they were reunited.
We have many other cases like this and it’s strange how some readers comment on articles we publish and when asked, many agree for us to help them write their memoirs which then start the friends network growing again as other readers offer help and advice.
READERS MAIL
We are always interested to hear from our readers about their thoughts and ideas so here is an opportunity to share your thoughts in a friendly manner with other readers.
Let us be plain on this point, anybody submitting a contribution must understand that they cannot request their name and address to be withheld and for those that want anonymity, then cyprusscene is not the place to sound off from behind a hidden identity.
For those wishing to make a complaint we will try to arrange a private introduction to those who can best deal with the complaint. If there is an issue that we feel we have the ability to follow up for the benefit of our local readers, then we reserve the right to do so.
Looking back at this past year we have seen an astronomical reading growth of our website and perhaps due to this, and the way in which we publish in a promotional fashion, this brings even more news and reviews to our door by readers who seek our help and value the way we give it.
That is great news but we are very conscious of the need to keep cyprusscene looking fresh and positive so we gave it a little spring clean with a new newspaper style layout.
This proved to be a very helpful change as the icon links to many TRNC government websites, many of which are in English, are now in a more prominent position. That means those who wish to seek news or information or even contact the government departments can do so by clicking our links.
We also now have room to place many other news article features within the initial readings zone and for example readers can, if they wish, send their news and reviews contributions for publication on cyprusscene and also northcyprusforum – the friendly forum. Click here for more information
May we take this opportunity of thanking all of our news and reviews contributors, both old and new, who have helped us grow cyprusscene from a small blog to a much sought after news and reviews website about Northern Cyprus which has a worldwide readership.
With the coming of the new year, many old members of North Cyprus Forum the Friendly Forum have been registering again to our great delight.
As they have found since the rebuild of the forum, we have created a website where many full articles from our sharing partners are published and we hope that our site will become the preferred choice of both our members and many others to read both news and reviews on our pages.
For our members we have now introduced a members only events calendar where they can post their local event details complete with pictures and location map. This calendar is also available for our other readers to view.
Naturally North Cyprus Forum was a very Friendly Forum when it was run by the late Nigel Watson and we have created this facility again for our members to share news and ideas with other members.
This year looks very promising for North Cyprus Forum the Friendly Forum and we look forward to many more members joining plus readers visiting our pages at northcyprusforum.net .
The end of 2016 brings cyprusscene.com moving forward into its 5th year and what a fascinating journey it has continued to be.
During this time we have seen many writers and contributors bringing their news and review articles to our pages and long may it continue so that we can share with the community, and the worldwide readership through our sharing partners, websites and forum.
We also have our individual projects and Margaret Sheard has worked very hard and has been very successful in building a network of contacts that have provided so many human interest stories of times gone by including articles about Newman’s Farm, PC Yusuf Ziya, The Suffolk Regiment, The Cyprus Rock and so much more.
Ladies always come first and it was with great delight that we were able to welcome Kathy Martin who, following the sad loss of her husband, took up the challenge to write about him and other subjects and now has found happiness and made so many friends by becoming part of our core team of writers.
Of Arts and Culture we were delighted to have the opportunity of sharing some great articles of events from the website of Heidi Trautmann.
Talking of life in Cyprus, Sermen and his brother Eren Erdogan have written some brilliant accounts of their childhood memories in the Governor’s House in Nicosia and other Cyprus articles and we hope many more article will follow.
Ismail Veli has developed his love of writing further to produce some fascinating articles on all sorts of subjects to go with his collection of articles about Cyprus and its people, history and culture.
Ralph Kratzer the Secretary of The Foreign Residents in the TRNC (TFR) continues to develop their website and brings us many accounts of their events plus commenting on topical subjects.
For sport loving people we have regular reports on ladies Cricket from Nigel Holman and about the Gentlemen of Girne cricket team from Danish Afridi.
We should not of course forget football with the great reports from Richard Beale about Esentepe KKSK team matches which also have video highlights provided by Graham Brown and we hope we will see sport reports coming from other contributors during 2017.
For my part I had the pleasure of helping both individuals and a number of organisations develop their own websites or blogs who in turn bring their news and reviews for sharing across our media community.
We are also now working with NGO’s and groups interested in helping to make North Cyprus better and where we can, we are talking with government offices and authorities to share thoughts and ideas, as well as offers of help and to establish the vital information that expatriates seek.
Talking of information, thanks also go to Trevor Hughes for his very informative monthly Trevor’s Tips article and Chemist Rota.
Finally I would like to thank Denise Phillips, Can Gazi and Engin Dervisaga, the Radio and TV presenters who provide us with news of the weekly shows on Bayrak Radio and Television many of which are interviews with so many fascinating people in our community.
Despite many technical difficulties we re-launched North Cyprus Forum.net which has a blog section for news shared from other websites in our group plus we have the all important Friendly Forum where members can share their thoughts and news and reviews and in 2017 we plan to expand this feaurure for all of those folk who wish to apply for membership.
So what of the future for 2017, well we are looking to bring a few more people into our hobbyist team who can help with the processing and sharing of your news and reviews and also develop their own passion for writing and creating entertaining reading.
In the meanwhile we send our best wishes for a healthy, prosperous and successful 2017 to all of our readers.
Here at BRTK, our team contribute many weekly articles to promote our TV and Radio shows thorough cyprusscene.com and by popular demand we are repeating our Vox Pop show when we visited the home of Chris Elliott and Margaret Sheard again to discover how our articles are received by their world wide audience.
Chris reflected on how over the past 4 years since they moved away from writing in local english language newspapers, how the many articles and reviews that are sent to them, have now gained a far larger outreach on the internet which in turn has encouraged many more people and organisations to seek their help and support.
Chris Elliott founder of cyprusscene.com
Not bad for two retired people with an all consuming hobby which is proving so successful in sharing news that it has even outlived other commercial online news media and newspapers.
If that was not enough to tax anyone’s time and patience, Chris told me he was asked to take over North Cyprus Forum.net during the latter part of last year following the death of his friend and mentor, Nigel Watson in 2014 and this has proved to be an incredible project to rebuild the forum alongside a blogging system into which cyprusscene.com and other websites and writers share their articles.
Chris said, we have tried to maintain Nigel’s dream of a friendly forum and it is still early days with a small sweet forum membership developing and for every 1 member registering, we have turned away 3 undesirable or suspicious applications with the use of a very effective security system and great help from one of the forum’s original moderators..
I asked Chris again as I have asked so many times before, why does he do it and he said “We are just the bearer of news and reviews of others which we want to share widely for the benefit of those it is about and also for the enjoyment of our readers no matter what website or social media page the articles are placed in. Many people say to me, is your operation a commercial one and I say no, we do not take money and to consider starting a company just to earn money through advertising and promotional activities is not worth the efforts as others have proved who are no longer publishing.
Margaret Sheard editor and proof reader of Cyprusscene and North Cyprus forum
Many of our readers and BRT2 viewers will have seen many of the fine promotional articles and reviews written by Margaret Sheard and she told me about their desire to make available as much helpful information as possible to their worldwide readers and that both she and Chris have contacts with a number of TRNC ministries from which they gain and publish information.
One of Margaret’s current projects is writing promotional articles about the Cyprus Rock project which is almost a one man task by David Littlemore to have a 3 ton piece of Cyprus Rock which has been shipped from Cyprus to the UK and will be used as the central feature of a memorial in the National Memorial Arboretum to all of the British Servicemen and also UK Cyprus Police who lost their lives during the Cyprus Emergency. To read more of this project please click here.
Margaret also compiles and maintains a weekly events calendar which is shared on websites and social media pages.
Steven Roberts a new writer who is planning to promote the Karpaz region
I have met a number of the writers for cyprusscene.com in the past and I was delighted to meet Steven Roberts who moved to the TRNC during the latter part of last year and has already written a number of very interesting and successful articles about local events and reviews.
One of his projects was a series of articles over a few weeks recording how parts of Iskele town centre were being turned into a film set. The Turkish film director Ali Avci was in the TRNC making a new film called ‘Reis’ (Leader) documenting the life of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Iskele was being transformed to look like the Kasimpasa district of Istanbul, where Erdogan spent his life in the 1950’s. The film could not be made in Istanbul because so much development has taken place in the last couple of decades.
He also wrote a series of articles about driving from the UK to the TRNC with a lot of very helpful information for others who may wish to do the same and is looking long term to write more and also try to raise readers’ awareness and promote the Karpaz region in which he lives.
Please tune in to my Vox Pop show on BRT2 Television on Sunday 19th June at 15.00pm to learn all about cyprusscene.com and North Cyprus Forum.net and this show will be repeated on Wednesday 22nd June at 11.00am.
To go direct to BRT 2 TV to watch these shows by live streaming on your PC at Cyprus local timeclick here and if you want to learn more of Bayrak Radio and Television click here
If you wish you can also watch a number of my past Vox Pop shows which can be selected for viewing byclicking here
For Radio Lovers do also tune in and join me on BRT Radio on Saturday at 19.00pm for my programme Top Twenty which is compiled by DJ Bora and this show is repeated on Sunday at 15.00pm. We are transmitting this on 6.150 MH/z. Short-wave, 87.8 and 105 FM Stereo or tune click here
For those local readers who have interesting hobbies or interests who think it could make an interesting subject for a TV show, do please send me a message.
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