A Turkish radio DJ told his sobbing girlfriend “Be quiet my love” before she was beaten unconscious by a gang of kidnappers, a court heard. The body of DJ Koray Alpergin, 43, was discovered near the Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton, Essex, last 15 October. Mr Alpergin, from North Cyprus, was formerly the owner […]
Two British police officers, who left London on 23 September to cycle 4,000 kilometres to Cyprus to raise vital funds for a children’s cancer charity, are currently in France undertaking the tough Col de la Madeleine. Located in the French Alps near to France’s border with Italy, the 26km Col de la Madeleine route is […]
A simple cheek swab is all it takes to become a blood stem donor. Your details are then added to the national blood register, where the Turkish community is chronically under-represented, and it could help save a life. Four years ago, the Turkish Women’s Philanthropic Association (TWPA), a registered British charity in Turnpike Lane, North […]
The gross domestic product (GDP) for the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) rose significantly last year, with economic output doing better than pre-Covid. Figures released by the TRNC Statistics Institute show that GDP grew by 13.3% in 2022, with a total GDP of 73.8 billion TL (£2.2 billion) for the year. Due to the […]
Each year, the Third Sector Awards recognises the achievements of charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises across 33 categories covering sector excellence, partnerships and talent. At last Friday’s awards ceremony at The Brewery, London, three organisations from the British Turkish community – the Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA), Cyprus Islamic Association, Turkish Police Association (TPA), […]
Police have recovered a revolver believed to have been used in the murder of six young Turkish men in Loutsa, a town in Attica, central Greece, earlier this month. The murdered men, all Turkish citizens, were shot on 11 September, allegedly by other Turks, in an incident that bore all the hallmarks of a gangland […]
Ten years ago, teenager Tanyel Uzun was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, Ewing’s sarcoma. The devastating news came just six days after Tanyel had turned 18. Intensive treatment seemed to work and Tanyel went into remission, but six months later she relapsed and sadly passed away in January 2016 aged 20. Even […]
Fashion entrepreneur Touker Suleyman is planning to significantly increase the number of shops in the UK for his men’s and women’s formalwear brand Hawes & Curtis, but it’s likely none of the new stores will be on the high street. Suleyman told fashion retail magazine Drapers that shopping centres are “a safe haven, especially when […]
Turkiye reaffirmed its commitment to a two-state solution for Cyprus in a speech made by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the United Nations in New York earlier this week. Referring to the sixtieth anniversary of the Cyprus Problem and the broad acceptance that a federation model settlement was no longer viable, President Erdoğan repeated his […]
The trial into the murder of Koray Alpergin began at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 20 September, where six men stand variously accused of murder, kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice. The popular Turkish radio DJ and his 34-year-old girlfriend, Gözde Dalbudak were abducted after a night out in Mayfair last October. […]
