A cross-party group of 52 British parliamentarians has urged the UK Government to intervene over Türkiye’s escalating crackdown on LGBT people and organisations, calling on Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband to condemn the detentions, raise the issue directly with Ankara and consider summoning the Turkis...
London’s Turkish football community will come together this Sunday for the traditional season-opening Community Shield, which this year will be played in memory of the late Turkish Cypriot businessman Münir Tatar.Organised by the Turkish Community Football Federation (TCFF), the match will see reign...
A senior Azerbaijani diplomat in London has accused The Guardian of presenting a misleading and one-sided picture of the former Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in its review of a new documentary about Karabakh.Günel Salimova, Counsellor at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in London, challenged the newspap...
Britain’s new Ambassador to Türkiye, Jennifer Anderson CMG, has formally taken up her post after presenting her credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara.Ambassador Anderson presented her letter of credence to President Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex on Tuesday, 8 Septembe...
Carrying 300kg for eight metres would be a formidable challenge for most people. British Turkish Cypriot strongman Mehmet Musa did it every day for 60 consecutive days – and says that by the end, it was beginning to feel like a “warm-up”.The Islington-born athlete made headlines earlier this year af...
A British Turkish Cypriot has filed a formal complaint with Ofcom and challenged ITV over its handling of a controversy surrounding references to the “Turkish” and “Greek” sides of Cyprus in an episode of Coronation Street.Abdullah Suleyman has accused the broadcaster of effectively “erasing” Turkis...
A UK-based Turkish Cypriot campaign group has launched an international petition calling for an end to the political exclusion of Turkish Cypriot children and athletes from sport, following attempts to stop a Barça Academy football camp from taking place in North Cyprus.Turkish Cypriots Exist (TCE)...
A 10-year-old British Turkish Cypriot has been crowned European Champion after a dramatic season-long battle against some of the continent’s leading young karting talents.London-based Ilyas Sami secured the 2026 IAME Euro Series X30 Mini Championship following the fourth and final round of the...
Messages of condolence and solidarity have continued to pour in following Sunday’s devastating ferry disaster off the coast of North Cyprus, which has left at least eight people dead and 20 others missing.Among those expressing their sympathies are British Turkish Cypriot MP Nesil Caliskan, Britain’...
Ali Gül Güneş, the pioneering British Turkish businessman affectionately known across London’s Turkish community as “Topal Ali”, has died aged 85.Güneş, who died on 14 August, was one of the best-known figures among the first generation of migrants from Turkiye to settle in Britain and played an imp...
