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...
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 authentical...
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...
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 trac...
A message released by North Cyprus’ ambassador to London Oya Tuncalı for the annual 20 July commemoration states it was the “communal solidarity” of Turkish Cypriots, which helped them to survive the “very difficult times” between 1963 and 1974. The years refer to the period known as the Cyprus C...
A young woman whose car caught fire fell to her death from a bridge while searching for help, police have said. Azra Kemal, 24, from London, was found on land below the A21 dual carriageway near Tonbridge, Kent, in the early hours of Thursday, 16 July. The LSE law graduate was pronounced dead at...
UPDATE, TUESDAY 15 July 2020, Havin has been found, and is back home safe and well. The family of Havin Çelik, a fourteen year old girl, are desperate for news on her whereabouts after she disappeared from her East London home. The last sighting of Havin was on Vicarage Road in Leyton at 4.30pm...
The parents of a 21-month-old baby have made a desperate plea to the British Turkish community to join the UK’s Blood Stem Cell Register. A single door match could help save their daughter Liya Gümüşöz, who has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a rare and aggressive type of cancer....
The local community has been quick to extend their support to a family in East London, who have had racist graffiti scrawled outside home telling them to “go back to Turkkey [sic].” The graffiti, written with a permanent black marker and littered with spelling mistakes, was left on a wall by the...
On Friday, the British government announced that people arriving from over fifty destinations from 10 July no longer need to self-isolate if they are coming to England. Among those listed is Turkey, which has already ended self-isolation for visitors from the United Kingdom, so essentially the tw...
