The award-winning Turkish film About Dry Grasses / Kuru Otlar Üstüne comes to cinemas across Britain and Ireland this Friday, 26 July. Shot in Erzurum and Adıyaman, the movie centres on a schoolteacher, Samet, who is accused of inappropriate behaviour towards Sevim, one of his pupils in a school in a remote part of Turkiye. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Swana Queer Network are hosting their third Queer (LGBTQ+) social event for people from the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) regions, their partners and others from the SWANA diaspora. This social event is an opportunity to meet new people, make friends, connect and, most importantly, have fun! After exploring the latest art exhibition […]
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 […]
For three nights this week, Camden’s Theatro Technis will be staging For the Love of Cyprus, a special celebration of contemporary Cypriot roots and culture, whilst also expressing “a desire for unity and peace on the 50th anniversary of the division of the island.” Hosted by award-winning music-comedy duo Martha and Eve (Martha D. Lewis […]
Kem Cetinay found fame on Love Island, winning ITV’s hit reality show in Season Three back in 2017. He’s gone on to design highly popular men’s fashion ranges for Primark, and made multiple television appearances including on ITV‘s This Morning, Dancing on Ice and, more recently, as a contestant on the BBC’s Celebrity MasterChef. And […]
Each year, the community-minded folk at DAY-MER stage a fantastic month-long programme that includes picnics to political panel debates that aim to stimulate the mind, body and soul, culminating with a huge free festival in Clissold Park. DAY-MER was set up back in November 1989 to support Londoners of Turkish and Kurdish origin who faced […]
If you’re in South London and looking for a musical escape from all the political madness of Election Day on Thursday, there’s a fab night on offer at Lewisham’s Fox & Firkin featuring three talented ladies, including Ela Özyılmaz. They appear on the SISTAS in JAZZ platform, which is dedicated to showcasing “exceptional womxn in […]
