Six children from Turkiye who are battling with leukaemia have arrived in London for a special visit for fun and also to meet with Turkish community members as young ambassadors of blood cancer charity LÖSEV.The five-day trip has been arranged by LÖSEV, a leading Turkish charity specialising in supp...
If you’re lucky enough to be invited on a state visit to Azerbaijan, you may well get the wonderful Ehtiqad Şükürov as your driver. A proud Azerbaijani who reflects the warm hospitality of his incredible country, loves all things Turkish, and drove us around in his fabulous disco-like minibus with a...
As Turkish Cypriots, as Cypriots, it is with horror that we watch every day the ghastly events unfolding a couple of hundred miles or so from our island. For me it is particularly painful and personal.Unlike most armchair commentators, I have been to the West Bank, to Gaza and to Israel several time...
One of the most exciting Turkish chefs of the past twenty years, Istanbul-born Esra Muslu has sadly passed away at the age of 44. The news was announced on social media by her central London restaurant Zahter, where tributes have been pouring in.The cause of death was not stated by Zahter, but a rel...
Tributes have been paid to one of Turkiye’s greatest musicians, violinist Suna Kan, who died at the weekend aged 86. The virtuoso enjoyed a celebrated solo, orchestral and teaching career in Turkiye and abroad.Kan was described as “The symbolic name of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's ‘music revolution’" by...
The Turkish diaspora in Britain is heavily engaged with political developments in their ethnic homeland of Turkiye.A record number of voters turned out for the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections a little over a week ago and an even greater number have cast their ballots in the keenly fought Pr...
I attended the Mayor of London’s annual Eid in the Square celebration in Trafalgar Square last weekend. It was a joyous riot of colour and noise, and the delicious smells lingering around from the edge towards thousands of people watching the activities on the main stage.The moon was visible overhea...
“Life is the absoluteness of truth which exists in its own essence.” &nbs...
You might have been fooled into thinking that this is an article about COP27 that has just finished in Egypt, but it is not, although it would make a good headline about that too.This is about the UK and the way that different sections of our society put different weights on different parts of discr...
It seems that I am repeating myself, but I can’t stop asking the question: “What has changed since my article from 25 November 2020? And once again, I am very saddened to say, “Nothing!”Unfortunately, nothing has changed except the numbers. Although violence against women and girls is PREVENTABLE, t...
