Acclaimed British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak has been named the winner of the 2026 Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage, recognising her contribution to celebrating Europe’s cultural heritage through literature and storytelling.The annual award, esta...
Tice Cin will be at Foyles bookstore in central London this September to celebrate the publication of her second novel 'Safe Spaces' and talking to fellow award-winning author and radio presenter Emma Warren.In Safe Spaces, our unnamed narrator survives in London and Newark on a combination of...
Is Dede Korkut a historical figure or a fictional character? What is his significance to Türkiye? And how is this legendary sage, poet and musician of Turkic folklore connected to Saint George, England’s patron saint, and Saint Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint and founder of the Armenian Ap...
Acclaimed British Turkish Cypriot author Metin Murat’s highly anticipated second book, Meeting Sister, is released worldwide on Thursday, June 26, by Işık Kitabevi. This thrilling sequel to Metin’s debut book, The Crescent Moon Fox, brings the story into the new millennium as the adult children...
Later this year, Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre will be hosting bestselling author Elif Shark (Şafak in Turkish), who will be discussing her new novel 'There are Rivers in the Sky', which is due out in August.The book is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love a...
It seems apt that writer and radio broadcaster Sami Kent will be launching his debut book about Turkiye in the heart of the Turkish community in North London later this month.Part memoir, part history and politics, The Endless Country allows Kent to revisit the land of his father, technology entrepr...
Standing at the gateway between Europe and Asia, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilisations...
From television cooks Nigella Lawson and Sabrina Ghayour-Lynn to food writer Diana Henry and the Stylist Magazine, Turkish culinary expert Özlem Warren has got everyone raving about her brand new cookbook Sebze, which is now available worldwide.'Sebze' translates as vegetables in Turkish and this go...
The Yunus Emre Institute London will be hosting an evening with acclaimed Turkish cook and author Özlem Warren, whose latest book ‘Sebze: Vegetarian Recipes From My Turkish Kitchen’ goes on sale in the UK this week.Özlem will be delving into her new cookbook ‘Sebze’, which is packed with delic...
The late Turkish ambassador Zeki Kuneralp (1914-1998) is regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats of his generation. He served twice as Turkiye’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, with both terms taking place during crucial periods in modern British history, as the UK tried to come to terms w...
