With another year wrapping up, we take a look at 2023’s most streamed Turkish artists, albums and tracks on the world’s biggest music streaming platform Spotify. Music streaming sites such as Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube, together with social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, have opened the doors wider than ever for Turkish musicians […]
British Turkish Cypriots have staged a poignant vigil to remember the 133 victims killed by Greek Cypriots when they mounted a brutal coup on 21 December 1963. A group of about 30 people assembled outside the Greek Cypriot High Commission on St James’s Square, central London, on Thursday evening to protest their government’s refusal to […]
A return to orthodox fiscal policies in Turkiye has seen a steep rise in interest rates as the Turkish government and Central Bank seek to check rampant inflation. On Thursday, as expected, the Central Bank announced a rise in interest rates – the seventh consecutive monthly increase. The 250 basis points means interest rates now […]
Turkish American Cenk Uygur, who is currently seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the 2024 US Presidential Elections, has said he would bar all American funds to Israel if he was elected. Uygur made the comments while appearing as a guest on British talk show host Piers Morgan’s Talk TV programme on Monday night, which […]
An MP from the religious Felicity [‘Saadet’] Party has passed away two days after suffering a heart attack in the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday. Hasan Bitmez, 53, gave a blistering 20-minute speech in the Grand National Assembly where he fiercely criticised the Turkish government for maintaining normal economic relations with Israel while it massacred civilians […]
A week of events to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of the British Alevi Cultural Centre and Cemevi (IAKM) culminated with a special night of spiritual music and dance at the Dominion Centre in Wood Green, North London, on Saturday evening. Titled ‘30 Yıl Semaha Durduk’ / 30 Years of Performing the Semah’, […]
A criminal gang behind the kidnapping, imprisonment, torture, killing and disposing of the body of DJ Koray ‘Bizim FM’ Alpergin have been handed long custodial sentences by a judge at the Old Bailey on Tuesday. Koray, 43, a popular radio presenter in the Turkish community, was initially treated as a missing person when police were […]
Faruk Koca, the president of a top-flight Turkish football club, and two others have been detained following a violent brawl that involved the match referee being punched and kicked in the head at the end of a Süper Lig match between MKE Ankaragücü and Çaykur Rizespor. The arrests were confirmed by the Justice Minister Yılmaz […]
British Turkish Cypriots will again be holding a vigil outside the Republic of Cyprus High Commission in central London to remember the 133 Turkish Cypriot victims killed at the start of the Cyprus Conflict sixty years ago. The details of the vigil were shared by Young Turkish Cypriots (YTC), one of the event’s organisers, on […]
Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the son of Somalia’s president, Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, after he was involved in a fatal road crash that killed a courier in Istanbul. Mr Mohamud was driving a car registered to the Somali consulate on 30 November when he struck the back of Yunus Emre Göçer’s […]
