Serkan Nihat has worked on some of the UK's most successful TV dramas such as Broadchurch and Taboo. Since switching from editing to directing, he has also filmed commercials and short films for major beauty, fashion and corporate brands. In 2018 he won a Cannes Silver Dolphin award for a Barclays B...
Independent London publishers Saqi Books will release a new book focusing on the Cyprus city of Nicosia, the “world’s last divided capital”, in June. Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City brings together “writers from all sides of the divide” to “reimagine the past, present and futu...
Turkish soap operas have been appealing to global audiences for some time, but seldom have any generated the levels of fandom that Diriliş Ertuğrul (Resurrection Ertuğrul) has. Even more significantly, it is the first to have seriously penetrated the UK. From talks up and down the country, to arr...
A young man has been jailed for life following the fatal stabbing 18 months ago of Kaan Aslan in Clapton, East London. Bruno Pateco-Te (pictured top), aged 24, of Chelmer Road, Homerton, was found guilty of the murder of Kaan Aslan and one count of violent disorder at the Old Bailey on Wednesday,...
Labour Party politicians of Turkish Cypriot origin have become embroiled in row over a tweet that accused Israel of backing terrorists in Syria, it has been reported. Veteran councillor Ayfer Orhan has been suspended from the Labour group after she shared a tweet that claimed Israel backed Al-Qae...
Pegasus Airlines will start flying between Manchester and Istanbul on 1 July, the company has announced. Flights between Manchester Airport and Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen will operate five times a week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, a Pegasus press statement said. The n...
They may be just 40 miles apart, but for the past six months Turkey and North Cyprus have been in two different time zones. Since October, Turkey has been one hour ahead of its Eastern Mediterranean neighbour. Early Sunday morning, clocks went forward by an hour on both sides in Cyprus and in oth...
Turkish entrepreneurs in Britain “won’t rest” until they have overturned a High Court judgment on immigration rules that have made it harder for thousands of Turks to stay in the UK. The vow was made by the Alliance of Turkish Businesspeople (AOTB) after it lost a legal challenge to the “retrospe...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan should take measures to protect the city’s Turkish community in the wake of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, an umbrella organisation representing Turks in the UK has said. Fifty people died and almost as many were injured when a gunman opened fire on wor...
North Cyprus state broadcaster BRT will tonight screen a special interview with the Turkish Cypriot members of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus. Gülden Plümer Küçük and Mine Balman appear on the Londra Gündem programme with presenter Ertanch Hidayettin. Ms Küçük and Ms Balman are...
