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Turkish Cypriot author Tice Cin to launch new novel Safe Spaces at Foyles

Tice Cin will be at Foyles bookstore in central London this September to celebrate the publication of her second novel 'Safe Spaces' and  talking to fellow award-winning author and radio presenter Emma Warren.In Safe Spaces, our unnamed narrator survives in London and Newark on a combination of...

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Author to share secrets of Turkic legend Dede Korkut and his links across Europe and Asia at UK book launch

Is Dede Korkut a historical figure or a fictional character? What is his significance to Türkiye? And how is this legendary sage, poet and musician of Turkic folklore connected to Saint George, England’s patron saint, and Saint Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint and founder of the Armenian Ap...

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Metin Murat’s gripping new novel ‘Meeting Sister’ set for global release

Acclaimed British Turkish Cypriot author Metin Murat’s highly anticipated second book, Meeting Sister, is released worldwide on Thursday, June 26, by Işık Kitabevi. This thrilling sequel to Metin’s debut book, The Crescent Moon Fox, brings the story into the new millennium as the adult children...

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Join Elif Shafak for an evening in Oxford talking about her new book 'There are Rivers in the Sky'

Later this year, Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre will be hosting bestselling author Elif Shark (Şafak in Turkish), who will be discussing her new novel 'There are Rivers in the Sky', which is due out in August. The book is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love...

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Journalist Sami Kent’s "spellbinding" new book on Turkiye, The Endless Country, to be launched at the Stoke Newington Bookshop

It seems apt that writer and radio broadcaster Sami Kent will be launching his debut book about Turkiye in the heart of the Turkish community in North London later this month. Part memoir, part history and politics, The Endless Country allows Kent to revisit the land of his father, technology entre...

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Özlem Warren on her Antakya roots, changing perceptions about Turkish cuisine and new vegetarian cookbook Sebze

From television cooks Nigella Lawson and Sabrina Ghayour-Lynn to food writer Diana Henry and the Stylist Magazine, Turkish culinary expert Özlem Warren has got everyone raving about her brand new cookbook Sebze, which is now available worldwide. 'Sebze' translates as vegetables in Turkish and this...

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Former Times Turkiye correspondent to give talk based on new Istanbul book

Standing at the gateway between Europe and Asia, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilisations...

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Özlem Warren to sign copies of her new vegetarian cookbook Sebze at Yunus Emre Institute London

The  Yunus Emre Institute London will be hosting an evening with acclaimed Turkish cook and author Özlem Warren, whose latest book ‘Sebze: Vegetarian Recipes From My Turkish Kitchen’ goes on sale in the UK this week. Özlem will be delving into her new cookbook ‘Sebze’, which is packed with deliciou...

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The London Years – a talk based on the newly published memoirs of former Turkish Ambassador Zeki Kuneralp

The late Turkish ambassador Zeki Kuneralp (1914-1998) is regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats of his generation. He served twice as Turkiye’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, with both terms taking place during crucial periods in modern British history, as the UK tried to come to terms w...

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Mother Çağrı and daughter Zehra create their first children’s book, 'Little Girl with a Big Heart'

It’s not every day that bedtime stories get turned into a children’s book, but for one mother and daughter duo, that’s exactly what’s happened. London-based Çağrı Oral and her young daughter Zehra Aziz have just had their first book, The Little Girl With A Big Heart, published. The story, which i...

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