Author: İpek Özerim

Film
Makers of ‘Filinta’ team up with Hollywood producer for new Rumi biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio

A Turkish production company is working with Academy Award-winning screenwriter David Franzoni and Hollywood producer Stephen Joel Brown to create a new biopic about Mevlana Rumi. Es Film, the makers of Filinta, a hit TV series about an Ottoman detective, will co-produce the new movie with Brown’s Y Film Production. The details were revealed in […]

News - Features
Remembering The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016
 

Last Friday the world laid Muhammad Ali to rest. The 74-year-old former boxing heavyweight champion died on 3 June after being admitted into hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, with respiratory problems aggravated by his Parkinson’s disease. Ali’s passing was mourned worldwide, his larger-than-life personality having transcended his sport to make him one of the most iconic […]

News - Turkey
‘Everyone should share the burden’ says Turkish ambassador on eve of 1st World Humanitarian Summit  

Turkey’s ambassador to London Abdurrahman Bilgiç told journalists, “Turkey is doing its share” and urged other countries to do more to relieve human suffering at a press briefing about the World Humanitarian Summit being held in Istanbul on 23-24 May. The historic event is being attended by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and over 50 heads […]

Entrepreneurs
JJ Food Service in this year’s Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100

A Turkish Cypriot owned family business has been ranked among Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits. Headquartered in Enfield, JJ Food Service (JJ), a national food and catering wholesaler, appears at number 70 in the annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table, to be published tomorrow. The rankings are based on performance over […]

News - Global
Harvard turns Turkish Airlines success story into a business template

Harvard Business School is using one of Turkey’s fastest growing companies as a blueprint for commercial success. Called Turkish Airlines: Widen Your World  the case study charts the airline’s spectacular growth from a regional actor into a global powerhouse. Turkey’s model blue chip corporation is currently ranked the 11th biggest airline in the world, and […]

News - Features
Are Turkish Cypriots in danger of radicalisation?
 

Those familiar with the British Turkish Cypriot community may well wonder how such a question could even arise. After all, Turkish Cypriots are highly secular and the younger generations well integrated into British society. So well integrated, that most know very little about their Islamic roots. It’s a topic actor and playwright Cosh Omar explored […]