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Frontline Club panel to debate ‘legacy of the Gezi Park Protests and the future of democracy in Turkiye’

In 2013, police brutality against a peaceful group protesting the destruction of Gezi Park – one of the few public green spaces in Istanbul – prompted an unprecedented wave of demonstrations that soon spread across Turkiye.  The focus of the protests soon morphed into riots against the ruling AKP government’s escalating authoritarianism, then headed by […]

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Gaza and the rule-based international order among key topics for Antalya Diplomacy Forum 2024

The third edition of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) is underway, bringing together heads of states and governments, ministers, diplomats, business leaders, academics, policy makers, and journalists to discuss the key issues dominating the global agenda. An estimated 4,500 delegates from 147 countries will take part in the three-day event, running from 1 to 3 […]

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Cycling: Take part in this Sunday’s Women’s Freedom Ride across London

Although cycling has becoming increasingly popular across London, women make up less than a third of all cyclists in British capital. The London Cycling Campaign Women’s Network (LCCWN) is trying to address this by calling for safer cycling, while encouraging more women to adopt this healthy, low-cost mode of transportation including by organising this weekend’s […]

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Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç’s strategy sees “record performance” as company profits double

Rolls-Royce’s Turkish Chief Executive Tufan Erginbilgiç has lived up to his nickname ‘Turbo Tufan’ by spearheading the company to more than double its annual operating profit to £1.6bn. The figures for 2023 are up from £652 million a year earlier, far exceeding the company’s own forecasts of between £1.2 billion and £1.4 billion. Its return […]

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Protest planned outside UK Parliament on 60th anniversary of UN Resolution 186 and start of embargoes against Turkish Cypriots

Human rights group Embargoed! and the British Turkish Cypriot Association (BTCA) have called for a protest outside the British Parliament on Monday, 4 March, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the embargoes against Turkish Cypriots and to highlight the role the United Kingdom played in this. Turkish Cypriots saw their fundamental rights […]

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Turkiye’s next generation fighter jet KAAN makes maiden flight over Ankara

Turkiye’s new combat aircraft KAAN – a fifth generation fighter jet – made its first flight on Wednesday, 21 Feb., marking an important milestone in the evolution of the country’s defence industry. Turkish aerospace firm TUSAŞ [Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayi Anonim Şirketi] shared a video of a KAAN fighter jet taking off for its […]