Features
Support T-VINE Magazine – special reader appeal
Can you help with our special reader appeal? T-VINE Magazine is a free publication and relies on subscriptions, advertising and other commercial revenues to cover its costs. We started out as a ‘labour of love’ project in April 2013, to give British Turks a voice and an opportunity to read news about their community, Turkey […]
Greco–Ottoman War of 120 years ago offers unique insight into the modern Ottoman Empire
On 20 May 1897, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece reached an armistice after a month-long war. The war was one of several conflicts between the Ottomans and an irredentist Greece. The Kingdom of Greece for its part had been established in 1832 when Russia, Britain, France and Bavaria brought the young […]
How the Fourth Crusade led to Christians fighting each other over Constantinople
More than 800 years ago between April and May 1204, Constantinople (now Istanbul) was conquered by the ill-fated and failed Fourth Crusade. The city subsequently became the capital of a newly formed crusader state known as the Latin Empire. By 1204, the practice of crusading was over a century old. Under a Catholic Church […]
EU-Turkey Rapporteur Kati Piri: “there will always be dialogue”
On Tuesday, 11 April, I visited Brussels to interview the European Parliament Rapporteur for Turkey Kati Piri MEP. Ms Piri is a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands and part of the parliamentary Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. As the Turkey Rapporteur, she is the parliament’s closest follower of […]
Who was Mihri Müşfik?
In the patriarchal world of Turks, it’s easy to overlook the many amazing women who have dared to be different, pioneering a new path for others to follow. Mihri Müşfik was one such lady. Of Circassian ancestry and the daughter of a military doctor, she was born in Kadıköy, Istanbul, on 26 February 1886, and […]
Reviews
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5th April 2017 Review: “an outstanding display” by cast of Bliss
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11th March 2017 Music review: Çiğdem Aslan – A Thousand Cranes
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21st January 2017 Genco and Nâzım in church
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26th April 2017 Turkey’s referendum result: reading between the lines
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27th February 2017 “Missing persons” – the tragedy of Cyprus
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30th November 2016 Letters, ‘Time to think about taking North Cyprus into the European fold’
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10th November 2016 A triumph for Trump – but the world holds its breath
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22nd September 2016 I need a holiday… after my holiday
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8th September 2016 My World: Selin Kiazim
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7th September 2016 Ask Yonca abla: Cheat or tell the truth?
News
North Cyprus lose to Padania in CONIFA Euro Cup final
Lib Dems say: “give the TRNC a fair chance”
What’s On
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22nd June 2017 Nefes to perform ‘Songs of Love from Balkans & Anatolia’ at SOAS
Next Friday, London based Nefes will be taking guests on a musical journey across Anatolia and the Balkans, playing a selection of contemporary and centuries-old folk songs from the region. The music is inspired by both Sufi and secular cultures of love. ‘Nefes’ in Turkish means breath. It is the essence of the self […]
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22nd June 2017 The Trans Sex Workers of Istanbul: special London screening and Q&A
To celebrate LGBT Pride Month, the Frontline Club is screening two short films about the Turkish and Latin trans communities. Directors Andy Hayward and Olivia Crellin will be present for a Q&A discussion about their mini documentaries, chaired by India Willoughby, Britain’s first transgender newsreader. The number of transphobic murders in Turkey has increased […]
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22nd June 2017 Ceyda Torun’s ‘Kedi’: London screening and Q&A about this cat’s eye-view documentary of Istanbul
Thousands of street cats have lived in the city of Istanbul for centuries, roaming freely and unencumbered virtually anywhere. Neither wild nor tame, locals take care of them – or maybe it’s the other way round, with the human characters highlighting the redemptive benefits of taking care of these homeless felines. Dubbed ‘the Citizen […]
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11th June 2017 Dr Fazıl Küçük Turkish School end-of-year fun day in June
One of London’s oldest and largest Turkish schools will be staging its annual end-of-year fun day for students, parents and the wider community on the last Saturday of June. The Dr Fazıl Küçük Turkish School 16th Summer Festival will take place at Conisborough College in Catford, Southeast London. The day will include students performing traditional […]
Stuff
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18th December 2016 Great gift ideas: for kids
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18th December 2016 Great gift ideas: for her
