Fans of novelist Elif Shafak don’t have much longer to wait before they can get their hands on her powerful new novel ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World’. The 368-page book in English hits the shops on 6 June and previews are already raving about it. Historian Peter Frankopan describes the book as, […]
The British capital is a hotbed of musical fusions, as epitomised by Don Kipper. The multi award-winning ensemble play a wide range of musical forms reflecting the cultural diversity of their North East London home, from Romani, Turkish and Greek Folk, to Klezmer, electronica and jazz beats. While born of traditions that surround them and […]
Turkey is no stranger to martial law. Its roots are steeped in the late Ottoman Empire, when İdare-i örfiyye first appeared as a neologism in the 1876 Ottoman constitution. While the term referred to the sultan’s authority in the Ottoman-Islamic legal tradition, its definition was inspired from the French “état de siège” in the 19th century. […]
Next month, London gets to see one of Turkish pop’s hottest new stars: Buray Hoşsöz. The Lefkoşa born singer-songwriter shot to prominence with his critically acclaimed debut album 1 Şişe Aşk [1 Bottle of Love] in 2015, which won him 21 awards and a legion of fans in the process. Buray cemented his place as the […]
The Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations and the Turkish Language and Education Consortium have announced a special competition for Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day. This year, the day also celebrates the centenary of Turkish military commander Mustafa Kemal’s landing at Samsun on the Black Sea on 19 May 1919, which marked the start of the […]
One of Turkey’s most popular historians will be in London for the annual Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day. Prof. İlber Ortaylı, who lectures at Istanbul’s MEF and Ankara’s Bilkent universities, is a special guest and speaker at an iftar dinner organised by the Çanakkale Anma Platformu (Çanakkale Commermation Platform) at Hilton Hotel Kensington on Sunday, […]
A portrait of Ottoman ruler Süleyman the Magnificent has been sold for more than £5.3 million at an auction in London. The 500-year-old painting went under the hammer on Wednesday, 1 May, for a total of £5,323,500. That was more than 15 times the initial estimate of £250,000 to £350,000, according to auction house Sotheby’s. […]
Ara Güler is one of the greatest photojournalists of all time. For decades his lens captured the lives of Turkey’s working class, its cultural sights and natural beauty, along with famous actors, artists and politicians such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Alfred Hitchcock, Maria Callas, Bertrand Russell, Sophia Loren and Winston Churchill. Nicknamed ‘the eye […]
Serkan Nihat has worked on some of the UK’s most successful TV dramas such as Broadchurch and Taboo. Since switching from editing to directing, he has also filmed commercials and short films for major beauty, fashion and corporate brands. In 2018 he won a Cannes Silver Dolphin award for a Barclays Bank campaign. The North […]
This Friday, the V&A – one of London’s premiere museum spaces – will screen Hala, or paternal aunt in Turkish. The work of talented young artist Şenay Camgöz, who specialises in moving image and performance, Hala is “a fierce, intelligent and resentful woman, a powerful and enduring archetype”. The actor-turned-filmmaker says she created the character “to explore […]
