There was jubilation for Istanbul club Galatasaray on Saturday night after beating İzmir side Göztepe 1-0 away from home to confirm their triumph in this year’s Süper Lig (Super League). It means the club has won the league title a record 21 times. Galatasaray is one of Turkey’s big football clubs, regularly picking up […]
In advance of his UK visit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan talks to BBC current affairs presenter Zeinab Badawi in the Turkish capital of Ankara. The interview will feature in a special edition of HARDtalk, to be first broadcast at 04.30 UK time on 14 May, and repeated throughout the day. Among the topics […]
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will arrive in London on Sunday for a three-day visit where he aims to bolster ties between Turkey and the UK. It will be his first visit to Britain since being elected Turkish president in 2014. He is scheduled to meet the Queen and will see Theresa May, the prime minister, on […]
A committed football fan went to extraordinary lengths to see his local team play at the weekend. The unnamed Denizlispor supporter was seen watching the Turkish League 1 match between his club and Gaziantepspor up in a crane. According to Turkish daily Birgün, the supporter had received a one-year ban from the club for […]
Modanisa.com was named the winner of the E-commerce and Digital Experience Award at the 2018 International Business Excellence Awards on Tuesday night. The modest fashion e-tailer beat leading Gulf retail chain Aswaaq and UAE’s RAKBank to pick up the prestigious prize at the awards ceremony held at Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai. Kerim Türe, […]
The 23rd of April has a special importance to multiple communities around the world. Those in or whose roots hail from Turkey will be celebrating today because it is National Sovereignty & Children’s Day. During their struggle for independence, the Turks, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, convened Parliament in Ankara on 23 April 1920. This […]
When Vodafone announced earlier this month it was moving Turkey to ‘Roam-further’ status, there was an outcry from thousands of affected customers. A petition was launched by those angry at having to pay a daily fee on top of their UK monthly plan while they were in Turkey and North Cyprus. Others threatened to ditch […]
Continuing its series of Turkey-related seminars and debates at the Palace of Westminster, the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) will be hosting Dr Louis Fishman there on 25th April 2018. A respected authority on Turkey and Israel, Dr Fishman’s talk will look at the intricacies of Turkish-Israeli relations, placing them within an historical context, […]
The recent, unexpected announcement by the British government that it was suspending applications for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in Britain for Turkish entrepreneurs on the Ankara Agreement has led to major confusion and upset. This timely public forum by the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) considers the recent changes the ILR procedure under […]
Earlier this week, the London Book Fair announced Turkish author Burhan Sönmez’s Istanbul Istanbul, translated by Ümit Hussein, had won the inaugural EBRD Literature Prize. Judged by historian Peter Frankopan, poet Gabriel Gbadamosi, Lucy Hannah, who founded and manages the Commonwealth Writers platform, and journalist Rosie Goldsmith, the prize awards €20,000 to the winning title, which is […]
