A bee condemned to death after it was reportedly brought into the UK from Turkey in a holiday family’s luggage could actually be British, an expert has claimed. Cocoons made of petals left behind by the insect at the home of a family in Bristol were too “untidy” to belong to the “foreign” Osmia a...
European champions Liverpool will take on UEFA Europa League winners Chelsea on 14 August at Beşiktaş Park in Istanbul. The all-English rivalry kicks off the new season pretty much as it ended last season, when history was made with four English teams contesting the finals of the UEFA Champions a...
Turkey has congratulated Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the UK, with hopes that he will use his Turkish heritage to further strengthen ties between the two countries. The congratulations were led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who wrote on Twitter (in Turkish): “I congratul...
Muazzez Suzan Hamit, one of the British Turkish Cypriot community’s key activists during the 1960s and early 1970s, has died in London aged 76. She had been battling with serious ill-health for a number of years and was rushed to Whipps Cross University Hospital late on Friday night, after being...
A 21-year-old driver was the toast of Turkey after winning one of four rounds in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup at the Silverstone Circuit on Sunday, 14 July. Ayhancan Güven stepped on to the winner’s podium to the sounds of the Turkish national anthem after coming first in round four, marking the...
The UK will not become involved in discussions on the future of the North Cyprus town of Güzelyurt, a British minister has said. The status of the area – which would have been handed over to the Greek Cypriots had they accepted the UN’s “Annan Plan” in 2004 and seen thousands of Turkish Cypriot r...
The summer edition of T-VINE Magazine is now out, with Hassan ‘J Junior’ Rediff and DJ Ramsey on this issue’s front cover. The pair have been at the forefront of the UK’s dance music scene and in 2005, decided to bring the aural flavours of London’s clubland to North Cyprus through The Mid Summer Ba...
Operation Black Vote (OBV) has been pivotal in championing black and minority ethnic (BME) representation at the highest levels of British civic and political life. Over the past twenty years, the London-based organisation’s work has led to an ever-increasing number of BME politicians and officials...
Norman Stone, the former Professor of Modern History at Oxford and European History at Bilkent, has died aged 78. The Scottish historian and multi-linguist, who spoke 12 languages, was a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, often attracting controversy with his outspoken views, not least in rejectin...
Turkish Cypriots in the UK and abroad have condemned the Met police’s decision to apologise to a London-based Greek Cypriot lobby group after officers displayed the flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) at a festival last year. Groups representing the community have lambasted Met...
