Aliye Mehmet has launched a fundraising campaign in Britain to help raise $2 million for lifesaving treatment for her niece Asya. The 8-month old toddler suffers from Type 1 SMA, or spinal muscular atrophy, a rare neuromuscular disease that severely debilitates the body. Babies with Type 1 SMA have severe problems moving due to their […]
Balık Arts has been inundated with film submissions for its four-day Turkish film festival in September. The Cambridge-based film charity received an astonishing 1,469 submissions from filmmakers hopeful of being included in the official selection for this year’s Taste of Anatolia – Films from Turkey. Festival Director Yeşim Güzelpınar said the application process had been […]
Ordinarily, an announcement by an embassy that its consular team is visiting their nationals abroad would not generate much excitement, but a Twitter post on Saturday, 10 July, from the Embassy of Pakistan in Ankara did just that. The embassy said it would be “undertaking a 3 days [sic] visit to Turkish Republic of Northern […]
On Sunday, England play their biggest game since 1966, taking on the Italians at Wembley, with the winners crowned the champions of Europe. The stakes are high, but the omens for England are good, and one man seeking to play his part by keeping the crowd in high spirits is Wembley DJ Tony Perry. Grandson […]
The remains of an Iranian couple found in Sakarya Province, northwest Turkey, have been identified through the serial number of the silicone breast implant of the female victim. On 1 July, police were called to Çimen Sokak in the town of Sapanca, located 135km east of Istanbul, after a stray dog was spotted with a […]
A Royal Navy air-defence destroyer was put to good use during its recent five day visit to Istanbul, hosting a series of events, including an exclusive reception and ‘Industry Day’ on board the ship for senior Turkish officials and business leaders, to promote Global Britain. Organised together with the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT), […]
England’s victory over Ukraine in the quarter-finals of the 2020 European Football Championship was the most-watched live TV event of the year in Britain. The BBC programme drew an astonishing 21 million viewers – 81.8% of possible television viewers at the time – who watched England thrash Ukraine 4-0. The excitement is now building for […]
Several countries came to the aid of South Cyprus following an appeal to tackle a huge wildfire in Limassol District, but offers of help from neighbouring North Cyprus were ignored, much to the disappointment of Turkish Cypriots. The fire broke out in the village of Arakapas on Saturday afternoon and quickly spread across forest in […]
Turkey’s leading charity for children with leukaemia has launched its annual Kurban (Eid al-Adha) campaign, appealing for donations that can be used to assist disadvantaged families whose children are undergoing lifesaving treatment for the blood cancer. Founded in 1998, LÖSEV, or the Health and Education Foundation for Children with Leukaemia, provides support and assistance to […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan laid the first foundation stone for his latest multi-billion dollar infrastructure project, Kanal Istanbul (Istanbul Canal) on Friday, 26 June. The event marked the official start of the construction of the canal that, when completed, will offer an alternative shipping route to the busy Bosporus Straits. Accompanied by Adil Karaismailoğlu, the […]
