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General Election 2024 results: Labour’s Nesil Caliskan makes history as first British female MP of Turkish Cypriot origin
Nesil Caliskan has been elected the new Member of Parliament for Barking. The Labour politician won with a healthy majority, beating her nearest rival by more than 11,000 votes. Her East London seat of Barking has been a Labour stronghold for the past three decades. Its former MP Margaret Hodge, 79, had held the seat […]
Who are the three politicians whose origins hail from Turkiye now sitting in the European Parliament?
The recent European Parliament Elections saw over 35 candidates of Turkish, Turkish Cypriot or Turkish Kurdish origin stand for a range of political parties, from communist to conservatives, in multiple European Union Member States, including France, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus and the Netherlands. Most of the candidates failed because they were either low down their party […]
General Election 2024: Could Labour’s trailblazing Nesil Caliskan become the first female Turkish Cypriot MP?
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 for every vote”. The East […]
2018 CONIFA World Football Cup: a trip down memory lane with fans and organisers
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 Associations, or CONIFA for short, offered fans and players […]
“Migration is the big topic in every corner of the world” – director Serkan Nihat on his powerful debut feature film Exodus
Serkan Nihat’s directorial debut film Exodus has won the Best Drama Feature 2024 award at this year’s London Independent Film Festival (LIFF). Set in Turkiye, the hard hitting migration drama received a standing ovation when it premiered at the festival earlier this month. Inspired by the global refugee crisis, Exodus homes in on two Turkish […]
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5th May 2023 , By Arran Angus Eid in the Square 2023 was amazing, but where were the Turks?
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7th July 2024 , By T-VINE Kem Cetinay announced as new radio presenter on The Capital Weekender
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11th June 2024 , By Guest Writer How many Palestinians must die before we all say, ‘enough is enough’?
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10th March 2024 , By T-VINE Turkish women’s group honour mothers and women at special North London event
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15th February 2024 , By T-VINE Five things you need to know about BBC Young MasterChef’s new judge Big Has
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New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets President Erdoğan at NATO Summit
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22nd July 2024 , By Boulent Mustafa A talk about Turkish trailblazer Halide Edib’s views of ‘The English as Occupier and Host’
Halide Edib (1884-1964) is one of those figures whose life runs through the end of the Ottoman Empire to the first years of the Turkish republic. She was a writer, warrior and politician who fell out with Atatürk and spent the years 1925-1936 in exile abroad, mostly in England. Halide Edib’s father was a proponent […]
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21st July 2024 , By T-VINE UK and Ireland cinema release for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s award-winning film About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)
Grabbing attention with his very first film, Koza [Cocoon] – which became the first Turkish short movie to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has firmly established himself as one of the world’s finest film directors, producing cinematic epics such as Winter Sleep, Three Monkeys, Once Upon a Time in […]
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18th July 2024 , By T-VINE Join Elif Shafak for an evening in Oxford talking about her new book ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
Later this year, Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre will be hosting bestselling author Elif Shark (Şafak in Turkish), who will be discussing her new novel ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’, which is due out in August. The book is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory […]
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13th July 2024 , By T-VINE Turkish rock band Yüksek Sadakat to play dates in London and Dublin this July
British and Irish fans of Turkish rock will get the chance to see Yüksek Sadakat later this month. The band will be playing exclusive dates at the 229 Club in London on 26 July, followed by The Button Factory in Dublin two days later. The band, first formed back in 1997 by Kutlu Özmakinacı, a […]
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13th July 2024 , By T-VINE Turkish rock band Yüksek Sadakat to play dates in London and Dublin this July
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7th July 2024 , By T-VINE Kem Cetinay announced as new radio presenter on The Capital Weekender
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30th November 2022 , By Sonya Karafistan Award-winning Turkish homeware brand Karaca opens first store in Britain
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