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Middlesex University and Barnet Council to host controversial “anti-Turkish” Cyprus talk in Hendon

A talk presented as a ‘Human Rights in Cyprus Lecture’, involving law lecturers from Middlesex University and hosted by Barnet Council, has been slammed by Turkish Cypriots as “anti-Turkish”. The event is scheduled to take place at Hendon Town Hall at noon on Monday, 18 March. According to details on online ticketing platform Eventbrite, where […]

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Turkish women’s group honour mothers and women at special North London event

Dozens of British Turkish and Turkish Cypriot women attended a special lunch at the Grand Palace Heather Suite in Wood Green on Friday, organised by the Turkish Women’s Philanthropic Association (TWPA) to celebrate International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day. Among the notable guests for the double celebration was Ambassador Çimen Keskin, the London Representative for […]

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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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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 […]