A photograph of man celebrating after hearing that Azerbaijan forces had liberated the city of Şuşa / Shusha from occupation has won a Special Award in this year’s Press Photographs Contest of the Year. The frame, taken by Uğur Yıldırım, a photojournalist for top Turkish daily Sabah newspaper, captures the moment a man jumps above […]
Sümeyye Boyacı has powered to victory in the women’s 50-meter backstroke in the World Para Swimming World Series in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. She won in a time of 43.83 – nearly a full second faster than the swim that brought her gold at the World Swimming championships in 2019. Boyacı, 18, was competing in the […]
A bakery where surfaces were swarming with fruit flies and the walls were mouldy has been shut down for its appalling hygiene. Waltham Forest Council officers, who visited on 17 March and took the business to court six days later, said it was “one of the worst-run food premises they had ever encountered”. A tip-off […]
Four goals from two Ankaragücü players determined the outcome of this Friday night game between league leaders Beşiktaş and Ankaragücü, who currently sit in the lower half of the Süper Lig table. Beşiktaş, without their star strikers Vincent Aboubakar and Cenk Tosun, who are both out through injury, dominated possession but failed to find the […]
Diplomatic efforts to thaw frosty relations between Aegean neighbours Greece and Turkey didn’t go quite to plan when a press conference between Turkish Foreign Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias descended into a war of words. Greece’s Foreign Minister had travelled to Ankara on Thursday, 15 April, to discuss a host of […]
A press release issued by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to remind Britain’s Turkish speaking communities to complete the Census has infuriated Turkish Cypriots after they were omitted. Turkish Cypriots make up the largest and oldest of the UK’s diverse Turkish speaking communities. Yet neither the community, nor its Islamic faith – also the […]
A 61-year-old man has died in hospital after contracting coronavirus, the Turkish Cypriot Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning. He had been in intensive care since 6 April, and also had underlying health conditions including high blood pressure and diabetes. The death brings the total number of coronavirus-linked fatalities in the Turkish Republic of North […]
Tuesday marks the start of Ramadan, or Ramazan in Turkish, for most of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. This holiest of months is when the Ku’ran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammed. Each year, Muslims go through their own spiritual reawakening. For the next thirty days, all healthy Muslims will fast during daylight hours, […]
The presidents of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus have extended their condolences to Queen Elizabeth II, her family and the people of Britain following the passing of Prince Philip earlier today. The Royal Family announced the death of the prince just after midday. The short statement said, “It is with deep sorrow […]
After spending the past few months filming in Turkey, Guy Ritchie has declared his love for the country and that he’d like to shoot all his films there. In a short video clip posted on his Instagram page, the British film director showed off his “2,000 year old office” situated amid the ancient ruins of […]
