The recent election victory of Joe Biden as President of the United States of America is expected to usher in many foreign policy changes for the US. One of the most important areas will be how the Biden Administration chooses to deal with Turkey, and how its President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may re...
The funeral of a young mother of two killed in a car crash in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus was held in East London on Wednesday, 11 November. A service was held for Fatma Kaşıkçı, 24, at Shacklewell Lane Mosque in Dalston, where due to Covid restrictions only 30 relatives and close friend...
A Turkish family from Leicester have made a desperate appeal for help as they seek to raise nearly two million pounds to fund lifesaving treatment for their toddler son Metehan Fidan. Earlier this year, Metehan was diagnosed with type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This rare neuromuscular disea...
The increasing number of coronavirus cases in South Cyprus has prompted the British government to remove the island from its travel corridor. The new measures, which came in on Sunday morning, 1 November, means those returning from Cyprus must self-isolate for 14 days. The decision was announc...
Just over a month ago, Nathan Apodaca went from an unknown American working in a potato factory in Idaho to becoming a global internet sensation. His car had broken down on the way to work, compounding an already tough week as he dealt with water and electricity problems at his trailer home. I...
The family of a young London Turkish Cypriot who was killed in a car accident in Lefkoşa, North Cyprus, last Sunday have launched an urgent appeal to cover her repatriation and funeral costs. Fatma Kaşıkçı was killed after the small silver Mazda she was driving came off the main Lefkoşa-Gazimağus...
A photograph by Hasan Bağlar of a grasshopper shedding its hard outer skeleton has been selected by the UK’s Royal Society of Biology Photography as one of the year’s best images of the natural world. Bağlar, from Lefkoşa (Nicosia), North Cyprus, submitted his photo titled “My Shirt’, capturing t...
Daylight Saving Time (DST) kicks in on Sunday, 25 October 2020. As a result, clocks will go back an hour in various parts of the world, including Britain, and North and South Cyprus, but not in Turkey, which opted out of DST in 2016. Clocks switch over to DST at 2am Sunday morning, allowing those...
Politicians aren’t renowned for keeping their promises, but one who did is Councillor Suzanne Nuri-Nixon, who represents the South Wymondham Ward on Wymondham Town Council. One of the election pledges she made in 2017 was to help the local community improve disability access at their main railway...
Four Turks were among the 1,495 people named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020, announced on Friday night. Fashion designer Erdem Moralıoğlu and Jeremy Corbyn’s former diary manager Ayşe Funda Veli are both awarded an MBE, while First Bus supervisor Mustafa Kemal Köksal and scout leader C...
