The Çanakkale Remembrance Platform has hired two buses to take community members free of charge to Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey, to participate in the annual prayer service on Turkish Martyrs Day. The service will take place at the gravesides of the 14 Turkish servicemen, who were killed dur...
I heard the bad news on a cold November night. 17th November 2015 to be exact. Two friends had gone to see him at Croydon Hospital. They rang to tell me in floods of tears that we had lost him. I had visited him a few days before, and was planning to go and see him again the following day. Alas, it...
British Turks have a chance to learn about Alzheimers (dementia) at a special seminar this Sunday. Organised by care in the community specialist Stepping Out, in conjunction with Limasollular Derneği UK, community members will have a chance to learn about the disease from the experts and to ask them...
Next Saturday, London’s Turkish community will honour the life and work of Dr. Tözün İsa, who sadly passed away in November aged 59 following his battle with cancer. Organised by the Turkish Language Education Consortium, community members are invited to attend the memorial night, which is being...
Two Turkish Cypriot associations are organising a talk in Turkish in North London next Sunday, 24 Jan., about the thorny issue of Cyprus property – one of the final matters the two Cypriot leaders will tackle in the current Peace Talks. Human rights group Embargoed! and the Vroisha (Yağmuralan) A...
The 77th year of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s passing has been commemorated across Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora today. Turkey’s founding father not only presided over vital military victories at Çanakkale and the Turkish War of Independence, which liberated Turkey from foreign powers, but also hel...
Since May of this year, Cyprus’ two leaders – Mustafa Akıncı and Nicos Anastasiades – have been working hard on the elusive elements that will pave the way to a peace deal, which could unite the island fifty two years after its division. While the positive atmosphere of the la...
Today marks the end of the annual 30-day fast, which is celebrated with a 3-day public holiday in Turkey, North Cyprus and across the rest of the Muslim world. Those here in London can join in the festivities too. Traditionally known as Şeker Bayramı (Sweet Eid), the festival is a time to thank G...
After twenty five years of broadcasting on the Medium Wave, British Turks lost their sole official voice on the airways following OFCOM’s decision to re-allocate their 1584 AM frequency to Panjab Radio - a station serving British Asians. The switch took place last Friday. London Turkish R...
Dr. Teoman Sırrı after receiving his MBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2006A highly respected British Turkish Cypriot doctor has been selected by his peers as the vice-chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) for North London. Dr. Teoman Sırrı MBE, originally from Gazimağusa in Cyprus,...
