Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has announced changes to a host of overseas diplomatic posts. New ambassadors were named for London, Moscow, Athens, Lefkoşa, and the European Union. First announced in August and confirmed again on Thursday is the news that Ambassador Ümit Yalçın is replacing Ambassador Abdurrahman Bilgiç in London. Bilgiç has served […]
Turkey came back from 2 goal deficit against Sweden to beat the home side and record its first points in the UEFA Nations League. A stunning finale saw the Turks score two goals in the last five minutes of the game courtesy of super-sub Emre Akbaba, to win 3-2. Played at the Friends Arena in […]
A family has appealed for news about a missing seventeen year old girl. Londoner Ayla Huseyin has not been seen since Thursday, 6 September. According to posts by her mother Alev Ozturkmen on social media on Monday afternoon, Ayla did not turn up for work on Thursday and they are frantically trying to find her. […]
A 56-year-old Turkish woman involved in a serious collision with a cyclist on Kingsland High Road, East London, on Tuesday 28 August, has lost her fight for life. Sakine Tezerdi passed away at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel a few days after the accident. After a memorial service at the Alevi Cultural Centre in […]
It’s not every day when you get an invitation from UEFA to help promote a new tournament, but that’s exactly what happened to South London-born Turkish Cypriot belly dancer Tevec Ibrahim. This week, Europe’s football body is launching a new UEFA Nations tournament to give a competitive edge to normally meaningless international friendlies. All 55 […]
If you live in the Enfield area and want your kids to have fun and keep fit at the same time, Enfield Town Football Club’s weekly Football School is ideal! The Football School takes place every Saturday morning, and is open to primary school children aged four and eleven years old, both boys and girls. […]
Police have launched a murder investigation after a man was fatally shot in Tottenham Cemetery, North London. Armed officers, the National Police Air Service (NPAS) and London Ambulance Service (LAS) attended after police were called to the cemetery at just before 8am on Monday, 3 September. They found a 22-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds […]
For the second week running, mothers seeking to peacefully demonstrate and demand information about their missing children were denied the right to hold their vigil on İstiklal Caddesi in Istanbul. The government ban on their assembly remained in place and in a bid to prevent violent scenes of last Saturday, police erected barriers in surrounding […]
A 56-year-old woman remains critically ill in hospital after colliding with a cyclist on Kingsland High Road, East London, on Tuesday, 28 August. The police were called at approximately 5pm following reports of a road traffic accident involving a pedestrian, who was hit as she attempted to cross the road by cyclist riding an electric-assisted […]
After an absence of nine years from the UK, maNga’s British fans can finally see them live when the nu metal band play a single date in London later this month. One of Turkey’s biggest bands, maNga have played a pivotal role in redefining Turkish rock music with their progressive fusion of electronic beats, traditional […]
