A young North London actor of Turkish Cypriot heritage stars in The Telemachy, an intimate new theatre production inspired by The Odyssey. Arman Mantella plays a mysterious travelling poet who swaggers from London to Edinburgh with a case full of ancient stories. This enigmatic host delves into the famed mythologies of Odysseus, the original rock-and-roll […]
The UK’s oldest Turkish mosque is hosting a meeting for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in London. The event, taking place at Shacklewell Lane Mosque, Dalston, on Wednesday evening is open to all. Speaking at the event will be journalist Gary McFarlane and 18-year-old student Capres Willow, who have been involved in other recent […]
Passengers have again crowned Turkish Airlines the leading airline in Europe. Chairman İlker Aycı was presented with the award for Europe’s Best Airline at the 2016 Skytrax World Airlines Awards in Farnborough on Tuesday. The airline has won the award for six consecutive years*. Described as “the Oscars of the aviation industry”, Skytrax is the […]
On 30 June, Turkey officially opened Osman Gazi Bridge in İzmit Bay. At 2,682 metres long, it is world’s fourth longest suspension bridge and the second longest in Europe. The bridge is named after Osman Gazi (1258-1326), the founder and first sultan of the Ottoman Empire. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım […]
On Wednesday night, the ancient amphitheatre in Salamis will be rocking to the sounds of roots reggae, courtesy of Julian “Ju Ju” Marley, who headlines the Mağusa International Festival of Arts and Culture (MIFAC). He is one of 11 artists that are performing at this year’s Festival, which runs until 28 July. Julian “Ju Ju” […]
Turkish Cypriot crooner Atila Huseyin is back live in London this weekend performing the early works of Nat King Cole, which feature on his new album King for a Day – the Music of the Nat Cole Trio. The show, at the award-winning Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, includes familiar numbers such as Nature […]
A two-day exhibition exploring the lives of migrant women originally from Turkey and Cyprus will open in Walthamstow on Monday. On Monday evening, the Mayor of Waltham Forest, Cllr. Peter Herrington, Enfield Cllr. Suna Hurman and other dignitaries will attend a reception for the exhibition, which in part aims to highlight and celebrate the tremendous […]
Governments, institutions and well-known personalities showed their solidarity with Turkey following the latest terrorist attack in the country, in which three suicide bombers killed 44 people and injured 239 others at Istanbul Atatürk Airport late on Tuesday evening. The following day, as dusk fell, cities around the world projected the Turkish flag on to their famous […]
Turkey is battling a major fire in the Kumluca district of Antalya. People have been evacuated away from the path of the two-day old fire, which has spread to the resort town of Adrasan and Çıralı village, and entered the Beydağları Coastal National Park that contains the historic Olympos (Lycia) site. İsmail Üzmez, head of […]
Turkey is this year’s special country focus at the East End Film Festival, which started on Thursday. Award-winning filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik is behind the selection of five Turkish films that is being screened during the 11-day festival. Karaçelik won last year’s East End Film Festival (EEFF) Best Feature Award with his second feature film Sarmaşık […]
