Independent critics have announced their nominees for this year’s top 100 Most Beautiful Faces. The nominations include five stunning actors and models from Turkey. Turkish nominees in the women’s Most Beautiful Faces category are Afra Saraçoğlu, Elçin Sangu, and Hande Erçel, while Barış Arduç and Çağatay Ulusoy are included in the men’s list of Most […]
A young British Turkish councillor was seriously injured after plummeting from a second-floor apartment block in Ibiza. Tolga Aramaz, 23, the representative for Edmonton Green, was admitted into hospital in the early hours of Friday morning. He remains in intensive care, although friends and family present at his bedside say his condition is stable. The […]
The race was on to save dozens of refugees after the alarm was raised that a boat carrying 150 passengers was capsizing in the East Mediterranean, 16 miles north of the Karpaz Peninsula. 105 people were helped to safety by Turkish air and sea rescue teams on Tuesday morning. However, 26 people remain missing, […]
Two modern Turkish restaurants in London have announced they will be raising money for a British anti-racism charity. Oklava and its newly opened sister restaurant Kyseri, both headed by top British chef Selin Kiazim, are donating £1 from each bill this week to Stand Up To Racism. The details were posted on the Instagram and […]
Yanki Erel, a young tennis player from Turkey, has made history by not only becoming the first Turk to appear in a Wimbledon final, but also the first to win a Grand Slam title after he and his Finnish partner Otto Virtanen won the Wimbledon Boys’ Doubles trophy this afternoon. The unseeded pair beat the […]
Yanki Erel has made history by becoming the first Turkish tennis player to make it to a Wimbledon final. Erel, 17, and his Finnish doubles partner Otto Virtanen won their semi-final match against British pair J. Story and H. Wendelken on Saturday evening to book their place in the final of the Wimbledon Boys […]
Turkey’s megastar Tarkan proudly announced the arrival of his first child on social media last night. Posting a picture of his new baby daughter, the international pop star wrote “Our daughter ‘Liya’ has arrived in the world JLike the sun, she was born into our lives. It is impossible to say with words, we […]
On Thursday 19 July, the TRNC Deputy Prime Minister Kudret Özersay will be giving a talk to the community about his Project for Overseas Turkish Cypriots (Yurtdışı Kıbrıslı Türkler Projesi). It follows the politician’s announcement in March of this year to make investing and resettling in North Cyprus easier for the Turkish Cypriot diaspora. […]
Teenager Yanki Erel has put aside disappointment of losing his first round Juniors match in Wimbledon to progress to the semi-finals of the Boys Doubles. 17-year-old Erel from Turkey and his Finnish doubles partner Otto Virtanen beat the fancied French pair Hugo Gaston and Clement Tabur in straight sets this afternoon. On Monday, Erel had […]
Beate Zschäpe has been found guilty of ten racially-motivated murders by a German court. A five-year trial determined that she was a member of a neo-Nazi gang behind the murder of eight Turks, one Greek, and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007. The Munich state court’s verdict, given on Wednesday 11 July, carries an […]
