The results from Sunday’s European Parliament (EP) Elections in southern Cyprus proved disappointing for the three candidates of Turkish Cypriot origin who were standing, including AKEL’s Niyazi Kızılyürek (pictured top right).Five years ago, Kızılyürek, a lecturer at the University of Nicosia in so...
On Tuesday, the Labour Party announced that Nesil Caliskan would be its Parliamentary candidate for the upcoming General Election on 4 July 2024.The following day, Caliskan posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she was “honoured to be the Labour candidate for Barking” and that she would be “work hard...
Six years ago today, Enfield Town Football Club hosted the final of a very special tournament in London that featured teams from politically unrecognised nations.While not as prestigious or on as large a scale as its more mainstream FIFA counterpart, the Confederation of Independent Football Associa...
With less than a month to go until the UK General Election, something unusual is underway in Enfield North, where two candidates with Turkish connections are contesting the parliamentary seat.The London constituency’s main contender is Türkiye-born Feryal Demirci Clark who is currently running for h...
For some, camping can seem like a daunting experience, but it can also be a lot of fun and help build confidence. That was the case for some British Turkish families from North London.Over the bank holiday weekend, the Turkish Women’s Philanthropic Association (TWPA) organised a camping trip for a g...
In the corner of a large Cambridge cemetery lie a handful of overgrown graves of men who were wounded or fell at Gallipoli / Çanakkale during the First World War. That was the epic campaign won so brilliantly against global opposition by Turkiye’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.It was also f...
Monday, 4 March 2024 will mark 60 years since the United Nations (UN) Security Council passed Resolution 186 that green-lighted the presence of UN peacekeepers in Cyprus and inadvertently created the current status quo on the island, where one side is recognised as a ‘government’ and the other strug...
A Turkish Cypriot family that fought for nearly fifty years to clear their father’s name after his wrongful imprisonment based on the evidence of a bent copper are still waiting for a direct apology from the British Transport Police and fear lessons have yet to be learned.In 1977, Saliah Mehmet and...
Turkiye and the Turkish diaspora have marked the first anniversary of the devastating earthquakes that struck the country on 6 February 2023, causing widespread death and destruction. A wide range of emotions were on display at the commemoration events, from tearful to thankful, hopeful and angry.In...
Many violent events occurred in the final years of British colonial rule in Cyprus, but one of the worst – and least known – is the slaughter of seven Turkish Cypriot civilians and the wounding of dozens of others by British troops on 27 and 28 January 1958. This shocking event would have a pivotal...
