Tag: awards

Books
Preview of the London Book Fair 2023, where Turkish bookstore Minoa is up for an ‘Excellence’ award

An independent bookstore, Minoa from Istanbul, is shortlisted for a prize the International Excellence Awards at the 2023 London Book Fair, where publishers and printing houses from Türkiye will also participate. Many events related to books and authors are organised in London, which is considered one of the creative capitals of the world. The London […]

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Turkish tourism firms pick up 6 trophies at the World Travel Awards Europe 2022

Turkish Airlines, the Çırağan Palace Kempinski, and Mandarin Oriental Bosphorus are among the top winners from Turkiye at the Europe Winners of the 29th World Travel Awards™. Many others picked up awards for the country-specific categories. The leading lights in the travel industry from some 40 countries attended the glitzy gala ceremony at the Hilton Mallorca […]

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TOGG: Turkey’s first fully electronic car wins top international design prize

A domestically produced Turkish electronic car has won one of the world’s leading design prizes. TOGG, short for Türkiye’nin Otomobili Girişim Grubu [Turkey’s Automobile Joint Venture Group], was a winner in the Professional Concept category at iF Design Award 2021. Launched in 1954, the iF Design Awards are internationally recognised as ‘the symbol of design excellence’. […]

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Hasan Bağlar’s ‘My Shirt’ shortlisted by Royal Society of Biology annual photography awards

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 the moment a grasshopper moults its exoskeleton. […]

Entrepreneurs
A hat-trick of awards for JJ Food Service – the UK’s largest Turkish Cypriot-owned business

National wholesaler JJ Food Service is celebrating after winning three prestigious industry awards on three consecutive days. On Thursday, 10 October, the JJ team were in Central London for the Women in Wholesale STAR Awards. The wholesaler has been spearheading industry efforts to actively recruit more females into various warehouse roles, and its ambitious targets, […]