Faruk Koca, the president of a top-flight Turkish football club, and two others have been detained following a violent brawl that involved the match referee being punched and kicked in the head at the end of a Süper Lig match between MKE Ankaragücü and Çaykur Rizespor. The arrests were confirmed by the Justice Minister Yılmaz […]
British Turkish Cypriots will again be holding a vigil outside the Republic of Cyprus High Commission in central London to remember the 133 Turkish Cypriot victims killed at the start of the Cyprus Conflict sixty years ago. The details of the vigil were shared by Young Turkish Cypriots (YTC), one of the event’s organisers, on […]
Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the son of Somalia’s president, Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, after he was involved in a fatal road crash that killed a courier in Istanbul. Mr Mohamud was driving a car registered to the Somali consulate on 30 November when he struck the back of Yunus Emre Göçer’s […]
It was all smiles between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Greek host, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after the pair met in Athens as part of the 5th Greece-Turkiye High Level Cooperation Council. The two leaders signed a joint declaration to pursue good neighbourly relations, marking a significant shift in how the historical foes […]
Enfield Council and the Turkish Cypriot Community Association are hosting an event next week to try to recruit new foster families to help plug the national shortage of foster carers. Fostering involves caring for children in your home whilst their parents are unable to look after them, which can be on a temporary or permanent […]
A British man accused of being the “ringleader” of an armed gang operating in northeast England has been arrested in Istanbul after being made the subject of an Interpol red notice. Shaun Monaghan was detained by Turkish narcotics police, who found the fugitive in a hotel in Istanbul. The arrest was confirmed by Turkish Interior […]
The UEFA EURO 2024 finals draw took place at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany, yesterday evening, determining in which of the six final tournament groups each of the 24 qualifying teams will play. Türkiye, which entered the draw having topped its qualifying group – a first in its history of international football – has been […]
British think tank CEFTUS, or the Centre for Turkey Studies to give the organisation its full name, has given a platform to a range of politicians, journalists and analysts casting a critical eye over the affairs of Turkiye. In December, the group will be staging an event with renowned journalist, author and documentary maker Can […]
A complaint has been filed by a Turkish lawyer, Bülent Akbay, against the bodyguard and driver of the İskenderun Chief Public Prosecutor Muhammet Emin Ünalan after the pair brutally him. The incident started outside İskenderun Courthouse in Hatay Province, southern Turkiye. According to a news report in Birgün newspaper, Mr Akbay was driving his car […]
After two weeks of deliberations, a jury at the Old Bailey have found two men guilty of killing Mehmet Koray Alpergin. The popular Turkish radio DJ and his girlfriend Gözde Dalbudak were kidnapped outside Mr Alpergin’s Enfield home after a night out in central London last October, the court had heard. The pair were taken […]
