Category: News – UK

Exhibitions
Turkish homeware brand Karaca to present award-winning Hussein Chalayan collaboration at Design London

One of Turkiye’s most exciting contemporary brands, Karaca, will be appearing at the upcoming four-day Design London exhibition in Greenwich, alongside other cutting edge interior brands from around the world. The homeware brand recently collaborated with globally renowned British Turkish Cypriot designer Hussein Chalayan MBE, who has created an eye-catching, minimalist style, collection of dinner […]

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Britain’s longest serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II has died

Britain is in mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, earlier today. The Royal Family released a statement confirming the British Head of State had died peacefully at her estate in Balmoral, Scotland, on Thursday afternoon aged 96. The Queen came to the throne in 1952, and her 70-year reign has […]

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Urgent appeal to save 4-year-old leukaemia sufferer Dillan Ramsey-Aksehir

The parents of a toddler battling against blood cancer have made a desperate plea to the British public to help them find a bone marrow match. Four-year-old Dillan, who is half Turkish through his father, needs to have a transplant by October to increase his chances of survival. Dillan’s family, who live in London, said […]

Columnists
Rishi Sunak’s Cyprus comments insult Turkish Cypriot loyalty to the Crown

Conservative Party leadership contender Rishi Sunak said, in writing to the Conservative Friends of Cyprus, that the British Cypriot Community has “made a hugely positive contribution to the United Kingdom”. It is important this statement applies to the UK’s Turkish Cypriot community, equally as to its Greek Cypriot community. In World War Two, thousands of Turkish Cypriots volunteered […]

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Love Island’s new ‘it’ couple Ekin-de are hitting it big with huge brand deals and their own reality show

While ITV2’s Love Island is a show about finding love with a prize of £50k (which isn’t much in today’s economy), most contestants join for the possible brand deals and a chance at becoming influencers on social media. It seems the Turkish delight and Italian stallion have struck gold with their on-screen persona: not only […]