In 2016, T-VINE Magazine set out to discover stories about the Turkish Cypriot community’s contribution to Britain as military and civilian servicemen and women during World War 2 and subsequent conflicts. One of the most moving and extraordinary stories was that of Cemal Mustafa, a gifted young...
On 7 March 2009, Sapper Patrick Cengiz Azimkar of the Royal Engineers and his best mate Mark Quinsey were gunned down by the Real IRA as they left Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland, to get a last pizza before leaving for Afghanistan. Patrick was aged 21 and Mark 23. The murders, com...
This year marks the centenary of the Royal British Legion, a charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants. It is fitting therefore that on Remembrance Sunday, 14 November 2021, the Royal British Legion...
Conservative politician Sir Iain Duncan Smith has landed himself in hot water with British Turks after it emerged he supported the introduction of a new bill calling for the First World War massacres of Armenians in Anatolia to be recognised as a “genocide”. Ayşe Osman, head of the UK’s Turkish C...
When 14-year-old Mehmet Buğra Köker met Princess Diana at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital early in 1997, he had already overcome a dozen major operations, including two kidney transplants. A chronic kidney disease sufferer, Mehmet campaigned relentlessly to raise awareness about the illne...
A BBC report on Turkey’s environmental record has been criticised for using “out of date” information. Reporting from the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg mistakenly placed Turkey in the same bracket as major polluters China and Russia, and also wrong...
A photograph by a British Turkish Cypriot has been shortlisted in the Everyday Muslim photography competition, which aims to document the lives of Britain’s diverse Muslim communities. Titled “Cards and Coffee”, the photograph by Erdal Redjep shows an elderly group of Turkish Cypriot men gathered...
A Conservative Member of Parliament has challenged the British government on failing to accept certificates for AstraZeneca Covid vaccines administered in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC). Julian Sturdy, the MP for York Outer, asked the Health Secretary Sajid Javid about “wh...
Those of us living in Britain and Cyprus will get an extra hour in bed this weekend, when the clocks go back for winter. Daylight Saving Time (DST) will officially start at 2am on Sunday, 31 October 2021. While many parts of the world observe DST, Turkey no longer does. As a result, on Sunday the...
The senseless and shocking murder of British Parliamentarian Sir David Amess has devastated not only his family, friends and colleagues, but also the very many communities his life and work touched. The 69-year-old Conservative Member of Parliament for Southend West was stabbed to death during a...
