This year’s Turkish Community Art Exhibition has opened for viewing at the Yunus Emre Institute in London. The exhibition features 70 pieces of art by 49 Turkish artists in Britain, including two extraordinary works by Hanife Kiatip. Hanife, known as ‘Hanni’ to family and friends, is a Turkish Cypriot artist who has the challenge of […]
Married women in Türkiye will be able to use their maiden name without any reference to their husbands’ surnames. The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided to annul Article 187 of the Turkish Civil Code, which compelled women to take their husbands’ surnames and ditch their own after marriage. The landmark ruling last month has paved […]
Two big elections are taking place in Türkiye on Sunday 14 May 2023: the Presidential and Parliamentary elections. While most media attention has been dominated on Erdoğan and whether, after 20 years in power, he can win again in the Presidential elections, the makeup of the Grand Assembly also has an important bearing on Turkish […]
On Sunday 14 May 2023, millions of voters in Türkiye head to the polls for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections. This year, the country celebrates its centenary as a Republic and Sunday’s vote is likely to go down as one of the most anticipated and pivotal days in the country’s history so far. Official figures […]
Istanbul-born economist, politician and former head of the United Nations Development Programme, Kemal Derviş has died at the age of 74. He had Parkinson’s Disease and was being treated in Washington D.C. at the time of his death on Monday. Derviş was a Vice President at the World Bank in Washington when he decided to […]
The Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday has generated acres of international media coverage and tens of thousands of social media posts, with striking images from the Westminster Abbey service and supporting events circulated all around the world. One unusual take on this centuries old ceremony has come from Jannes the head of the […]
A district judge and a local authority in East London have come under fire for inferring kebab shops are unregulated and unhygienic following a case involving serious breaches of food hygiene at a branch of McDonald’s. The initial problem arose in Judge Susan Holdham’s choice of words when she passed judgment on Leytonstone McDonald’s. The […]
It’s not every day that a senior politician from a foreign country pops over to one’s house for dinner, but that’s exactly what happened to Londoner Türker Çakıcı, who received Fuat Oktay, the Vice-President of Turkiye, and his wife Hümeyra as guests on Friday night. VP Oktay was one of more than 100 state leaders […]
There has been a large turnout of Turkish citizens living in Britain casting their ballots in Turkiye’s Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. The two big elections will take place in Turkiye on Sunday 14 May. The Turkish government has facilitated overseas arrangements to allow Turkish citizens living in 73 different countries to also participate in the […]
A father of one of the Turkish Cypriot school victims of the Turkish earthquake has shared a heart-breaking note from his daughter, sent to him on May Day seven years ago. Enver Karakaya posted Selin Karakaya’s International Workers Day message to him on 1 May 2016, when she would have been just seven years old. […]
