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Former Eastenders star Haluk Bilginer wins Best Actor International Emmy for Şahsiyet

A Turkish actor who first came to prominence in the 80s in British soap opera Eastenders, has this week won an Emmy. Haluk Bilginer received an award for Best Performance by an Actor at the 47th International Emmy Awards in New York on Monday, 25 November. The International Emmys are for televisi...

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Kuruluş: Osman, the follow-up series to Diriliş: Ertuğrul, starts on Wednesday

Kuruluş: Osman, the eagerly awaited follow-up to blockbuster period drama Diriliş: Ertuğrul [‘Resurrection: Ertugrul’] is set to hit Turkish TV screens on Wednesday evening, 20 November. Starring Burak Özçivit (pictured top), the new  series about the life of Osman I, the founder of Ottoman Empir...

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The question teenager Arda Ayten answered correctly to win Turkey’s Who Wants to be A Millionaire?

A UNIVERSITY student has come away with the top prize on ‘Kim Milyoner Olmak İster?’ [Who Wants to be A Millionaire?]. Arda Ayten answered a question on Turkey’s national anthem correctly to win 1 million Turkish lira on Friday night, 5 October. Viewers had been left hanging from the last series...

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Leyla Kazim part of the panel for new Channel 4 cookery gameshow Beat The Chef

Food and travel blogger Leyla Kazim is set for a stint on British TV, as she judges the food of amateur cooks when they take on professional chefs in a bid to win cash prizes that range from a few hundred pounds to a jackpot of £10,000. Beat the Chef starts tonight, Monday 27 May, at 5.30pm on Ch...

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Catch the interview with Enfield Council Leader Nesil Çalışkan on BRT tonight

Tonight, television presenter Ertanch Hidayettin is interviewing Nesil Çalışkan, the Leader of  Enfield Council on the Londra Gündem programme. The interview, in English, will be broadcast at 21.30 UK time on BRT1 and BRT1 HD. It can also be watched live online via the BRTK website. The programme...

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Turkish TV series Diriliş Ertuğrul takes Britain by storm

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...

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Tonight: BRT screening of London interview with members of Cyprus Missing Persons Committee

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...

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Chris and Kem on how they intend to win this year’s Celebrity Hunted (Stand Up For Cancer)

  Entertainment meets factual fundraiser tonight when the second series of Channel 4’s Celebrity Hunted gets underway. Kem Cetinay and his Love Island ‘brother’ Chris Hughes join six other famous faces who turn fugitive as they attempt to evade capture for 14 days. The celebrities can hid...

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Selin Kiazim hoping for more success on this year’s Great British Menu

  The new series of Great British Menu is upon us, and after opening with three leading culinary talents from the North East, the second week moves to the London and South East heat, which features Selin Kiazim. Last year, Kiazim’s Turkish-inspired muhallebi dish Honouring Venus Rosewater...

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Obituary: Kelami Dedezade – a tireless advocate for education (1952-2018)

  “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” said Nelson Mandela and indeed the same can be attributed to Kelami Dedezade, who passed away on the 13 July 2018. Dedezade was a huge believer that education is the only tool to make a difference in society....

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