Turkey’s automotive sector remains its top performing industry, posting an 8.2% increase in exports last month. Its October sales of $2.2 bn helped prop up the country’s export total for the month , which stood at $11.727 bn – 4.9% down on the same period last year. The October 2016 figures were released by the […]
Gaye Su Akyol’s second album takes you to places that no current Turkish artist has done before. It’s not just the diversity of sounds that you find on Hologram İmparatorluğu that makes it so unique, but how she has beautifully melded Turkish classical music, Anadolu pop, surf music, dub, punk and psychedelic rock on individual […]
Despite local and international concerns, the Turkish authorities continue to clampdown on opposition media. In the past fortnight, the police have arrested and charged the editor and journalists of respected broadsheet Cumhuriyet claiming they were linked with “terrorists”. It was the final straw for one major foreign media investor in the country. On Nov. 3, […]
Hologram İmparatorluğu tracklisting Hologram Akıl Olmayınca Kendimin Efendisiyim Ben Fantastiktir Bahtı Yarimin Kendimden Kaçmaktan Dünya Kaleska Eski Tüfek Uzat Saçını İstanbul Nargile Anlasana Sana Aşığım Mona Lisa Berdus Gaye Su Akyol’s new album is out in the UK on Glitterbeat Records from Friday 11 Nov. It’s available on CD, vinyl and digital download from all good […]
With no end in sight for the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time, the UK branch of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD UK) are organising a seminar in the British Parliament to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis. Since the outbreak of the conflict in 2011, Turkey has become a safe haven for hundreds of […]
Oklava and Yosma are among some fifty British eateries hoping to make a difference through dining. Throughout the month of November, each restaurant is adding a Syrian dish to their menus to raise money in aid of UNICEF’s Syrian Relief Fund, while also shining a more positive light on war-torn Syria by celebrating its delicious […]
The Çanakkale Remembrance Platform (Çanakkale Anma Platformu) has released details of their annual conference and dinner in honour of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Associate Prof. Orhan Çekiç, one of Turkey’s leading authorities on the founder of the Turkish Republic, will be speaking about the final year of Atatürk’s life, which ended on 10 November 1938. The […]
Next Thursday, don your party shoes and come celebrate the launch of Djanan Turan’s new single Dancing Feet at the fabulously quirky Library Club in London’s Covent Garden. Following the release of her EP Maze, the poptastic singer and her band have spent the summer performing on the festival circuit across Europe. Now back in […]
An attempt to bring North Cyprus’ LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) community out of the closet has highlighted the homophobic attitudes still prevalent among some parts of the population. On 1 Nov, the Queer Cyprus Association (Kuir Kıbrıs Derneği) unveiled a major outdoor advertising campaign. Colourful billboards around the country displayed the words […]
One of Turkey’s most renowned historians will be the subject of a talk at the Yunus Emre Institute this Thursday. Halil İnalcık, who passed away in July aged 100, was a leading authority on the Ottoman Empire, frequently challenging the biased and often hostile narratives of the West, as well as the exaggerated, nationalistic and […]
