Four people have been killed and six injured – one seriously – in two major road traffic accidents in North Cyprus. On Monday evening, a car driven at high speed by 34-year old Çiğdem Altınfincan on the main Lefkoşa-Güzelyurt road heading towards Güzelyurt, veered into the ditch in the central reservation near the Türkeli junction, […]
Turkish Cypriots have been criticised for showing a due lack of care to the memory of Dr Fazıl Küçük on the 30th anniversary of his passing. On January 15, the TRNC government led the annual memorial service to Dr Küçük, who dedicated his life to championing Turkish Cypriot rights. The day started with a service […]
A capacity 400-people attended last night’s British Kebab and Retail Awards (BKA) at a plush ceremony at the Sheraton Park Lane. A total of 12 awards were up for grabs. Best Chef was won by Mangal 2’s Ali Dirik, the Outstanding Contribution to the Kebab Industry had three winners (Vatan Catering, Tees, and Efes Nevstar), […]
Kebabs are to Turks what fish and chips are to the English, an integral part of our food culture. The first wave of Turkish immigrants in Britain arrived from Cyprus in the 1950s, bringing with them their key cultural traditions. By 1966, the first British kebab restaurant had opened: Hodja Nasreddin in Newington Green, North London. It […]
British Turkish Cypriot Huseyin Garabet is on the bill for this Sunday’s ENFUSION LIVE, a night of elite kickboxing featuring some of the world’s top fighters. Known as the Turkish Snake, the kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion is drawn against Julian Guyonnet (Team Tieu) in one of 12 fights at IndigO2. The evening […]
Over the weekend, Vodafone expanded its Europe Zone to also include Turkey and Northern Cyprus. The new tariff came into play on 23 November, bringing significant savings for Vodafone Passport customers who call these countries or use their UK mobiles or laptops when they are there. A standard call from the UK to Turkey now […]
He wowed all four judges with his sensational cover of Lionel Richie’s All Night Long during the blind auditions on 1 October. Now Ali Köse is gearing up for another knockout performance in the first battle rounds on O Ses Türkiye –Turkey’s version of The Voice. Murat Boz, Ebru Gündeş and Gökhan Özoğuz (Athena’s lead […]
His simple market stall idea has become a multi-billion pound global business The Turkish immigrant widely credited for creating the doner kebab has died in Berlin at the age of 80. Kadir Nurman, originally from Malatya in Eastern Turkey, moved to Stuttgart in Germany at the age of 26. Soon after he moved to Berlin […]
Described as a “romantic revolutionary”, Nâzım Hikmet was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his life in prison or in exile. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages and his innovative writing style broke literary boundaries in Turkey. His imprisonment in the 1940s became a cause célèbre among […]
New York serves as the battleground for a new Middle Eastern conflict, this time over dough-breads. After years of domination, the city’s classic bagel has competition in the shape of its skinnier Turkish neighbour the simit. The company taking on the bagels is Simit and Smith, which opened its first Manhattan store on the Upper […]
