A young British Turkish Cypriot student has run 70km in a single day in a bid to raise thousands of pounds for the victims of the massive earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria last week. On Friday, 17 February, Celine Akiner took to the streets of London to run an Ultramarathon, which is slightly less […]
Hundreds of people came to pay their respects to Özkan Hasan at Palmers Green Mosque, North London, on Sunday, 5 February, ahead of his body being repatriated to North Cyprus where he will be buried. The iconic guitarist, who was a central figure in the entertainment scene of Turkish London in the 1970s and 80s […]
Dragons’ Den returns to our screens at the start of the New Year with a brand new series of entrepreneurs vying for investment from five business ‘dragons’. The first episode will be broadcast on BBC 1 at 8pm on Thursday, 5 January 2023. There are no changes to the line-up of dragons for series 20, […]
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do” — Steve Jobs An extract from my Q&A with Birkan Uzun for ‘Vision Matters’, broadcast on Kıbrıs Postası on 24 March 2021. Q: What did you want to achieve at Amazon? A: I wanted to develop applicable technologies […]
“Life is the absoluteness of truth which exists in its own essence.” -Osman Türkay- I cannot describe my joy when I stumbled across a cassette, which I had been looking for many years and finally found during some building works at home. It was the tape with a recording of an interview with Osman […]
Politician Natalie Suleyman already has a number of firsts under her belt: she is the first Australian Muslim and the first Australian Turkish Cypriot to be elected to the Victoria Parliament. Now, Suleyman adds a third after being appointed a minister in the new regional government for Victoria by Premier Daniel Andrews. Suleyman, 48, a […]
An actor who played one of the main characters on global hit television drama series, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, will be in the UK in December to discuss his life, role and the impact the show had on Muslims. Celal Al, who played Abdurrahman Gazi for all five seasons of Diriliş: Ertuğrul and continued in the successor […]
It seems that I am repeating myself, but I can’t stop asking the question: “What has changed since my article from 25 November 2020? And once again, I am very saddened to say, “Nothing!” Unfortunately, nothing has changed except the numbers. Although violence against women and girls is PREVENTABLE, the numbers on violence against women […]
A nostalgic glimpse at Şimuni and Hurmüz Diril’s last reunion with their family in their home village of Meer (Kovankaya), one of the only remaining Chaldean Catholic villages in Türkiye today. Director Etna Özbek films the family as they prepare for the winter season, stocking supplies and wrapping up the fine honeycombs to share out […]
The family of murder victim Mihrican Mustafa are to honour her memory with an event that brings together other families who have lost loved ones in tragic circumstances. Called The Table of Love and Loss, the event will take place at East Ham Town Hall in East London on Sunday, 4 December. It offers the […]
