Turkey’s ambassador to London Ümit Yalçın has found himself in the midst of some of the most intensive political traffic between Turkey and the United Kingdom in decades. After spending two years as the Undersecretary of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the experienced diplomat arrived in the British capital late in 2018 to find […]
The European qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar get underway this week, with games taking place on Wednesday, 24 and Thursday, 25 March. Turkey, Azerbaijan and Wales are in action on Wednesday evening, with England, Northern Ireland and Scotland playing on Thursday. Sky Sports will be giving extensive coverage of all the games. Turkish […]
The third and final instalment of the British Turkish Cypriot Association’s ‘What is the future for Cyprus’ debate brings together five major speakers. President Ersin Tatar’s Special Representative Ergün Olgun will appear alongside former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, international relations guru Professor Hasan Ünal, Lord Northbrook, the Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) […]
An important channel of communication has opened up between senior members of the Labour Party and the British Turkish Cypriot community. Representatives from the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations UK – the UK’s largest umbrella group for Turkish Cypriots – have met with Fabian Hamilton, the Shadow Minister for Peace & Disarmament, and Catherine West […]
The Everyday Muslim digital photography archives are a vital visual documentary of Muslim life across the United Kingdom. This large and unique collection is seeking to grow – with the help of Britain’s 3.5 million Muslims. The organisation has launched a brand new photography competition to help shine a light on new talent, and also […]
Two British Turkish Cypriots have created a short film to raise awareness that “Turkish Cypriot” is accepted as an ethnicity under the ‘Ethnic Group, Other’ category on this year’s Census. The 94-second comedy clip by Eray Galip and Aziz Kemal, who are better known by their alter egos Eray Beyi and The Aziz Show, has […]
Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. While many use this annual day to celebrate inspirational women and their achievements, others will focus on the issues currently blighting women’s lives. The day’s roots lie in Russia where a little over a hundred years ago, on 8 March 1917, women working in textile factories across Petrograd […]
A Conservative politician in the House of Lords has sought to highlight inconsistencies in the British government’s policies on trade relations with states it doesn’t formally recognise. Lord Richard Balfe tabled a series of questions about the government’s use of trade envoys, asking what the criteria was in determining which countries have a trade envoy, […]
A new British comedy set in a pupil referral unit (‘PRU’) gets its first-ever airing on BBC iPlayer today. The show will make its terrestrial debut on BBC 1 on Friday night. The 18-minute premiere of PRU is essentially a pilot, but BBC bosses were so impressed with the show that it’s already been commissioned […]
Two British Members of Parliament have quizzed the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over what action he is taking to help free Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP, Halkların Demokratik Partisi). Patrick Grady, the Scottish National Party (SNP) MP for Glasgow North, and Labour’s Dr Rupa Huq, the MP for […]
