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TPA head Sgt Eren Emin “welcomes” Met apology on racist case study, urges community to "experience" new training course

The Turkish Police Association (TPA) chair Sergeant Eren Emin has responded to yesterday’s Metropolitan Police statement apologising to British Turks for the offence caused by its training material that concentrated a whole manner of vile and improbable criminal traits in a single person described a...

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Turks in the house, as Enfield Town Ladies take on West Ham Women in friendly tonight

If you live in London and have been inspired by the brilliant performances of the England Women’s team in the UEFA Women’s Euros, come and watch Enfield’s own Lionesses take on West Ham United Women in a friendly match at Donkey Lane, Enfield, tonight. The visitors have two midfield players of Tu...

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Met. Police apologises to British Turkish community for using offensive training material

The Metropolitan Police Service has today issued an apology to the Turkish and Turkish Cypriot community over its use of a racially and religiously offensive case study, stating it is “very sorry” about the training material that “has caused so much upset”. The Met also made the unexpected move o...

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Baroness Ece’s Private Cemeteries Bill set for second reading in Parliament, as Tottenham Park Cemetery undergoes new inspection

Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece’s bill to regulate private burial grounds has passed through its first reading in the House of Lords and is scheduled for a second reading after the Summer Recess. The Private Burial Grounds and Cemeteries Bill, introduced on 15 June, sets out the responsibilities of ow...

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Council leaders write to Met Police over racist training material targeting Turks

The pressure continues to pile on to the Metropolitan Police about its use of offensive training material on a course for new detectives, after the leaders of Enfield and Haringey Councils, Nesil Caliskan and Peray Ahmet, complained about the “negative racial stereotyping of people of Turkish herita...

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Turkish restaurant in Palmers Green burns down following fire on hottest day of the year

One of North London’s best known Turkish restaurants, Aksular, has been destroyed following a fire that broke out at the property on Tuesday, 19 July. Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze on Green Lanes, Palmers Green, on the day the country experienced record...

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BTCA condemns Met Police, demands apology for racist depiction of Turks in training material

Kenan Yaman, the new chair of the British Turkish Cypriot Association, has written to the Metropolitan Police urging “full disclosure” about the “authors” responsible for producing a racist case study about a Turk that’s been used to train new detectives. In their letter to the Met’s Acting Commi...

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"Drug-dealing Turkish gangster, murderer and rapist” – the case study used by the Met Police to train new detectives

The Metropolitan Police has come under fire after it emerged that trainers are using a case study that portrays Turks in the worst possible light as part of their education of new detectives. The offensive material, which first came to light in a report by The Times on Friday (‘Racist’ Met police...

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Cancelled: Metin Murat’s Top 10 Cyprus book list that The Guardian refused to publish

Being cancelled as an author for writing about books inspired by your homeland is not what you expect to happen, especially when the article is for one of Britain’s most progressive papers. Yet that’s what occurred when Metin Murat submitted his Top 10s to The Guardian, which proudly claims to be “g...

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Turkish Cypriot cookbook Meliz's Kitchen an instant Sunday Times Bestseller

Meliz’s Kitchen, the debut cookbook by British Turkish Cypriot cook and food blogger Meliz Berg, has topped the book charts just three days after its release! The 288-page hardback featuring classic Turkish Cypriot recipes went straight in at Number One under the Manuals section of The Sunday Tim...

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