A Turkish production company is working with Academy Award-winning screenwriter David Franzoni and Hollywood producer Stephen Joel Brown to create a new biopic about Mevlana Rumi. Es Film, the makers of Filinta, a hit TV series about an Ottoman detective, will co-produce the new movie with Brown’s Y...
Eleven German MPs of Turkish heritage have been given police protection after they received death threats for supporting a Parliamentary resolution calling the deaths of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as “genocide”. The motion was passed in the Bundestag on June 2. The German Parliament's decision h...
The UEFA Euro 2016 Championship kicked off in Paris last night. Hosts France beat Romania 2.1 in the opening game, played at the State de Paris St Denis. A total of 24 teams are competing at this year’s tournament, with Spain the reigning champions. England and Wales will play their first games o...
As Eurovisions go, it appeared that Australia (yes, we know it's not in Europe) had it sown up this year. Way out in front with votes from the juries of the participating countries, we were looking at a comprehensive Aussie win.Though Ukraine was picking up a few 12 points, Australia was more consis...
If you had one chance to spend Eurovision in any country, it would surely be Sweden and in particular Stockholm, wouldn't it? The Swedes have got this Eurovision thing sussed. Winners of this most prestigious song contest umpteen times, no-one knows this contest better than the birthplace of th...
With no Turkey again in this year’s Eurovision, millions of Turks across Europe may be struggling to find a reason to watch the annual TV song contest. Fear not, there are at least three good reasons to tune in. First, support the contender from the country you are based in – in our case, UK entr...
Flags for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Wales, Kosovo and Palestine are among those that can’t be displayed at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The event is taking place in the Swedish capital Stockholm this weekend. New rules introduced by the competition’s ruling body have...
Last weekend, Turks around the world celebrated 23 Nisan (April) – Children’s Day. The day was initially established in 1923 as National Sovereignty Day to commemorate the country’s move from Sultanate rule to Parliamentary governance in the newly created Republic of Turkey. Four years later, Mustaf...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been named as one of the world’s most influential people, according to TIME magazine. The annual list of movers and shakers, viewed through an American lens, includes political, business and religious leaders, alongside artists, athletes, activis...
Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece, the UK's first and only Turkish Cypriot member of Westminster's Upper Chamber, and the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on Equalities, has been refused an entry visa by the USA. The Muslim Peer was due to represent the UK Parliament as part of the European Parliamentary Foru...
