Aliye Mehmet has launched a fundraising campaign in Britain to help raise $2 million for lifesaving treatment for her niece Asya. The 8-month old toddler suffers from Type 1 SMA, or spinal muscular atrophy, a rare neuromuscular disease that severely debilitates the body. Babies with Type 1 SMA...
Balık Arts has been inundated with film submissions for its four-day Turkish film festival in September. The Cambridge-based film charity received an astonishing 1,469 submissions from filmmakers hopeful of being included in the official selection for this year’s Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turke...
On Sunday, England play their biggest game since 1966, taking on the Italians at Wembley, with the winners crowned the champions of Europe. The stakes are high, but the omens for England are good, and one man seeking to play his part by keeping the crowd in high spirits is Wembley DJ Tony Perry....
Turkey’s leading charity for children with leukaemia has launched its annual Kurban (Eid al-Adha) campaign, appealing for donations that can be used to assist disadvantaged families whose children are undergoing lifesaving treatment for the blood cancer. Founded in 1998, LÖSEV, or the Health and...
British Turkish Cypriot activists have launched a campaign to end the flights embargo on North Cyprus. Calling themselves DFN Cyprus (short for Direct Flights to North Cyprus), the group’s first action is a letter-writing campaign to British Members of Parliament, and it’s already generating resu...
A father of two has suffered life-changing injuries after he was attacked in broad daylight in North London. Tarkan Mustafa, 33, lost the sight in one eye and will need major surgery to rebuild his cheekbone and eye socket after an unprovoked attack outside a chip shop on Stoke Newington High Street...
There is no change in the top post for the Turkish Community Football Federation (TTFF) following committee elections. Osman Ercen was returned unopposed as President for next season. The committee elections took place on Tuesday evening, 15 June, as part of TTFF’s annual general meeting. Due to...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has discussed the Cyprus issue with UN Secretary General António Guterres during a sideline meeting at the G7 Summit in Cornwall in the south of England. A statement from 10 Downing Street said the meeting on Saturday, 12 June, covered “a number of internation...
Pc Deniz Jaffer, 47, and his colleague Pc Jamie Lewis, 32, are set to appear at the Old Bailey later this month over allegations that they shared pictures of a double murder scene on WhatsApp. The two Metropolitan Police officers appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 27 May having each be...
JJ Foodservice has achieved the highest sales in its 33-year history, up 13% in May 2021 compared to the same period in 2019. The business – one of the UK’s largest grocery wholesalers – has remained open throughout the coronavirus pandemic, including the country’s three lockdowns. One of the...
