This August is the last month for Cypriots living abroad to complete an online survey that will help shape future policies on resolving the decades-old Cyprus Problem. Earlier this year, two academics launched a pioneering study into the views of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot diasporas. Associate Professor Işık Kuşçu-Bonnenfant and Professor Neophytos Loizides’s detailed […]
A young woman from North London, who overcame a Stage 4 brain tumour as a child, is gearing up for a weekend fundraising jump for The Brain Tumour Charity. Weather-permitting, Ayse-Gul Ismail will perform a skydive in Peterborough on Saturday, 15 August, in the hope of raising £1,500 for the world’s leading brain cancer charity […]
Silverstone is proving to be lucky turf for Ayhancan Güven. In 2019, the young Turkish driver celebrated his very first victory in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. He repeated the feat a year later, on the 70th Grand Prix Anniversary of Formula 1. Having secured pole position in the qualifiers the day before, Güven went on […]
The man accused of killing Mihrican Mustafa and Hungarian national Henriett Szucs is “manipulative and controlling”, who inflicted “very significant violence” on his victims, a court has heard. The remains of mother-of-two Mihrican Mustafa (known as Canan to her Turkish Cypriot family and Mary Jane to friends) and Henriett Szucs were discovered by police in […]
The Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations UK (CTCA) has launched a campaign to stop plans for commercial and residential development on Turkish Cypriot property in Britain’s Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) in Cyprus, calling the plans “unlawful”. The CTCA accuses the UK government of “deliberately undermining” Turkish Cypriot legal and political rights in order to move […]
An East London mosque has been criticised for refusing to create space for women to pray on the first day of Eid al-Adha (the Festival of Sacrifice or Kurban Bayramı in Turkish). Poet and community activist Mohamed Mohamed and his wife had turned up at Suleymaniye Mosque in Dalston on Friday, 31 July, having reserved tickets […]
Today, Arsenal take on Chelsea in the FA Cup Final, the climax of what has undoubtedly been the strangest football season in living memory, primarily due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The two London sides will battle it out at Wembley Stadium without any fans in order to prevent the further spread of […]
One of the UK’s biggest food wholesalers has introduced a new range of Turkish bakery products. Both trade and consumer customers can now purchase a tasty selection of Boreks, Baklava and Simits from JJ Foodservice. Part of its own-label Letsdough bakery range, the new products are authentically Turkish, produced by JJ’s suppliers in Turkey. The […]
The final game of the 2019-20 season had left Premier League promotion hopefuls Swansea with an uphill struggle to get into the play-offs. In seventh place, three points behind Cardiff and Nottingham Forest, Steve Cooper’s side needed a lots of results to go their way, and to score a bucketful of goals in their own […]
There has been public uproar and protests following the brutal killing of Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old university student whose body was found in the Aegean district of Muğla on Tuesday, 21 July. She had been missing since 16 July after stepping out of her flat in Muğla. Police were able to track her movements by […]
