The award-winning Turkish film About Dry Grasses / Kuru Otlar Üstüne comes to cinemas across Britain and Ireland this Friday, 26 July. Shot in Erzurum and Adıyaman, the movie centres on a schoolteacher, Samet, who is accused of inappropriate behaviour towards Sevim, one of his pupils in a school in a remote part of Turkiye. […]
Acclaimed electro rock band Lalalar will be playing at Camden’s award-winning music venue Jazz Café in what is sure to be a memorable appearance. One of the most exciting new bands to emerge from Istanbul, the three-piece outfit serve up a unique blend of punk rock, psychedelic funk and electronica bound together with Anatolian beats. […]
The Everyday Muslim digital photography archives are a vital visual documentary of Muslim life across the United Kingdom. This large and unique collection is seeking to grow – with the help of Britain’s 3.5 million Muslims. The organisation has launched a brand new photography competition to help shine a light on new talent, and also […]
Adil Aydın won first prize in this year’s watermelon competition in Diyarbakır, eastern Turkey, with a massive watermelon weighing 56.2 kilograms. Judges for the event said it was the heaviest watermelon recorded in the region in seventy years. Mr Aydın was participating in the 10th Culture and Watermelon Promotion Activities [10. Kültür ve Karpuz Tanıtım […]
Turkish jazz legend Okay Temiz brings his iconic Oriental Wind Ensemble to Camden’s award-winning music venue Jazz Café for an extremely rare London appearance. The classically trained multi-instrumentalist has been performing professionally since 1955 on musical devices that he has either collected or created over the years. A unique talent, he can transform even the […]
A UNIVERSITY student has come away with the top prize on ‘Kim Milyoner Olmak İster?’ [Who Wants to be A Millionaire?]. Arda Ayten answered a question on Turkey’s national anthem correctly to win 1 million Turkish lira on Friday night, 5 October. Viewers had been left hanging from the last series about whether nineteen-year-old Arda […]
There’s already a huge buzz among London’s Turkish community about pop star İlyas Yalçıntaş, as he prepares to make his debut appearance in the capital on Sunday 13 October. The singer-songwriter from Erzincan amassed a huge fanbase after appearing on a national television talent contest in 2014. The judges and TV audiences quickly fell in […]
Two brilliant bands – Don Kipper of London and The Langan Band from Glasgow – share the bill at the Jazz Café this Friday, 24 May. It promises to be a night of wild musical abandon as both bands are renowned for their lively, eclectic take on folk and global beats. T-VINE has a pair […]
The Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations and the Turkish Language and Education Consortium have announced a special competition for Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day. This year, the day also celebrates the centenary of Turkish military commander Mustafa Kemal’s landing at Samsun on the Black Sea on 19 May 1919, which marked the start of the […]
Two lucky people have the chance to step back in time and enjoy the magical music of Barış Manço. The rock star passed away in 1999, and on Thursday 31 January, singer Djanan Turan and a group of virtuoso musicians will pay tribute by performing his greatest hits at London’s Jazz Café on the twentieth […]
