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‘A Night of Turkish Composers’ in North London with soprano Sibel Demir

Those who attended the recent Royal Garden Hotel Kensington Ball to celebrate the centenary of the Turkish Republic will know all about the enchanting voice of soprano Sibel Demir. She wowed guests with her exquisite rendition of Turkish classical music and popular folk songs.Demir returns to the st...

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Taste of Anatolia 2023 film festival starts this Saturday, here’s everything you need to know

The fifth edition of Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey starts on Saturday, 4 November. The week-long festival, which this year spreads its weeks to venues in Cambridge, London, Norwich and Aylesbury, will screen a total of 54 movies, which includes 42 UK premieres.The independent Taste of Anatol...

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Get your dancing shoes on for a Turkish 90s Party in London

If you’re in London and in need of some feelgood Turkish music, then this Turkish 90s Party at The Phoenix is just for you!Expect a night of nostalgia with hit tunes from the artists who defined the golden era of Turkish music, including Tarkan, Mustafa Sandal, Kenan Doğulu, Sezen Aksu, Burak Kut, C...

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Aynur Doğan is at the Royal Festival Hall for this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival

Kurdish folk music meets a contemporary sensibility in the extraordinary vocal talent of Aynur Doğan, one of the most prominent Kurdish singers of our times.Aynur’s impressive voice and compelling gift for musical narration represent the Kurdish music heritage of her cultural roots as a global...

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Islandman: where 70s Turkish psychedelic music meets the trance vibes of Berlin

In November, one of Turkiye’s coolest exports, Islandman, will be returning to London to play Camden’s Koko as part of their European tour.Formed a decade ago, Islandman comprises of multi-instrumentalist and producer Tolga Böyük, Eralp Güven (percussion) and Erdem Başer (guitars). The three-piece u...

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Turkish singer with incredible vocal range, Cem Adrian set to play in London in April 2024

Cem Adrian is one of Turkiye’s most highly regarded artists of the new millennium. The singer-songwriter  was born with vocal cords that are three times the length of an average person's, giving him a vocal range that straddles bass to soprano.Since bursting on to the scene as part of indie gro...

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World premiere of Yalçın Tura’s piano concerto: a special London concert to celebrate 100 years of the Turkish Republic

The 29 of October 2023 marks the centenary of the Republic of Türkiye. This important milestone will be marked by numerous festivities all around the world, including London.To commemorate a century since the declaration of the Republic of Türkiye, the Yunus Emre Institute London, with the support o...

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A star-studded ball in London to mark the centenary of the Turkish Republic

Turks all around the world are preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye on 29 October 1923.One of the gala events taking place in London will be “The Centenary Ball for the Founding of the Republic of Turkiye” in the ballroom of the five-star Royal Gard...

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Turkish Cypriot artist Ayshia Muezzin’s collaborative new art project on display in Suffolk and Hannover

Multimedia artwork involving British Turkish Cypriot artist Ayshia Muezzin has opened in a new collective exhibition, Inner Projections, at konnektor in Hannover, Germany.Intermedia artist Muezzin has teamed up with Italian conceptual painter Daniele Bongiovanni to create OrbiLux, a collaborative vi...

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An audience with Spurs legends Gary Mabbutt and Ossie Ardiles at Enfield Town

Fan-owned Enfield Town Football Club is staging a special night with two of the finest footballers to have graced North London: former Tottenham Hotspur captain and England international Gary Mabbutt and his Spurs colleague, Argentinian international Osvaldo ‘Ossie’ Ardiles.Held in Enfield Town’s st...

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