The second anniversary of an unsolved murder case has promoted police to appeal for witnesses and offer a £20,000 reward for anyone providing information that leads to a conviction of the person or persons responsible. Of Turkish origin, businessman Cafer Aslan, who ran a venue called Yavruvatan Sports Club in Edmonton, North London, was aged […]
Turkish Cypriots have been in Britain for over one hundred years. At about three hundred thousand, the community is some way off from the UK’s larger ethnic groups, yet its colourful contribution to British society cannot be doubted. The Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations in Britain’s (CTCA UK, or Konsey for short in Turkish) held […]
A research team in Norway led by a Turkish scientist has shed new light on what could be happening to the human brain during an epileptic seizure – providing new hope for treatment. A study by the Yaksi group at Trondheim’s Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), headed by Professor Emre Yaksi, suggests that […]
Shockwaves in Turkey over the killing of a mother in front of her child by her ex-husband have sparked a new debate over the country’s domestic violence record. Emine Bulut, 38, was stabbed to death in a cafe on 18 August by her former husband in the central Anatolian city of Kırıkkale, some 50km east […]
A man who avoided almost certain death at the hands of Greek Cypriot gunmen in 1974 by hiding in a barrel as a child has spoken about the terrifying moment he thought he and his family would be killed. Şafak Nihat was just 13 when EOKA-B terrorists came to the village of Muratağa on the […]
People who bought property from a real estate developer in Girne in the TRNC may have fallen victim to title deed fraud, it has emerged, as a prominent local businessman was accused of falsifying dozens of documents. Investment İnşaat Ltd director and founder Mehmet Eminoğlu and Serdar Özbekoğlu, a certifying officer, were both remanded in […]
A Turkish military pension fund is set to rescue British Steel from insolvency after it was named as the preferred bidder for a takeover of the company. Ataer Holding A.S., part of Oyak, Turkey’s “biggest complementary pension fund”, will now enter into “exclusive talks” to finalise the deal, an announcement from the Insolvency Service said. […]
Europe kicked off the new football season with its annually held Super Cup – its equivalent of England’s Charity Shield. Played at the BJK Vodafone Park stadium – the home ground of leading Turkish club Beşiktaş – Liverpool, the winners of the Champions League, took on Chelsea, the holders of the Europa League Cup. Liverpool […]
On 14 August, 1974, Turkey commenced the second phase of its military intervention in Cyprus. The order was famously given in a coded message referring to the daughter of the then Foreign Affairs Minister Turan Güneş. “Tell Mr Güneş that Ayşe can go on holiday,” was the secret signal given by the late Turkish Prime […]
Turkey will this weekend mark the 20thanniversary of an earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 17,000 people and caused widespread destruction. Ceremonies are expected to be held and prayers said to remember those who lost their lives when disaster struck in the Marmara region just after 3am on 17 August, 1999. The 45-second […]
