North Cyprus Stamps SG 2024 (b) Anniversaries - Official FDC

North Cyprus Stamps SG 2024

Anniversaries

Official FDC

Issue Date: 2 April 2024

Available on Cyprus Stamps website: as a set of 2 stamps (MINT or CTO/USED), Official FDC. Also 2 x Full Sheets of 15 stamps and 1 pictorial selvedge in MINT condition.


Inner Wheel, one of the world's largest voluntary women's non-governmental organisations serving in the TRNC, celebrated its 24th year in North Cyprus and its 100th year worldwide in 2024. Its three main objectives are to Promote True Friendship, Promote Personal Service Ideals and Contribute to World Peace by Promoting International Understanding.
It has over 4000 clubs and more than 120,000 members in over 100 countries.
The evolving Inner Wheel clubs in Northern Cyprus, having gained the right to become District 222 in 2021, continue their work for the benefit of civil society with 560 members and 12 clubs.
Variious projects are undertaken in the fields of education, health, sustainable environment and energy resources, women, children and elderly rights.
Inner Wheel is represented with observer status at the UN's Vienna, Geneva and New York Offices by 5 members.
Every three years, conventions held in different countries bring together members from around the world to introduce their countries and clubs and to make decisions to expand and enhance their service boundaries under the Inner Wheel umbrella.

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With the start of bi-communal conflicts in December 1963, Turkish Cypriot students studying at the English School in the Greek side, were unable to go to school.
In order to provide opportunities for such students, a school named "Köşklüçiftlik English School" was established on 27 January 1964 as a branch of English School, with the initiatives of some volunteer parents and teachers Hasan Nevzat, Behzat Gürsel and Mahmut Islamoğlu.
Köşklüçiftlik English School, which started out as a private school, was transferred to the Department of Education on 1 September 1967 under the name "The English College", provided that it preserved its unique features.
After the 1974 Peace Operation, the school moved to its current building in Küçük Kaymakli under the name "Turkish Maarif College".
The college celebrated its 60th anniversary on 27 January 2024. It currently has 1223 students and 137 teachers.

Name of Artist: Görel Korol Sönmezer