A very happy new year to all our readers. We hope 2024 will be a joyful year for each of you, full of good health, peace and love. The past 12 months have been a roller coaster ride of tragedies and triumphs, and everything in between. And, as the clocks struck midnight to indicate the start of 202...
T-VINE Magazine readers really do love a good news story. Two thirds of our most well-read and commented stories of 2023 were about positive developments, charity or success stories. There are four separate news items about the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus that feature in our Top 15, including...
The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in London has announced details of how Azerbaijani citizens living in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Iceland, and the Republic of Ireland can register to vote in the upcoming Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan, which are scheduled to take place on 7 F...
British Turkish Cypriots have staged a poignant vigil to remember the 133 victims killed by Greek Cypriots when they mounted a brutal coup on 21 December 1963. A group of about 30 people assembled outside the Greek Cypriot High Commission on St James’s Square, central London, on Thursday evening to...
A week of events to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of the British Alevi Cultural Centre and Cemevi (IAKM) culminated with a special night of spiritual music and dance at the Dominion Centre in Wood Green, North London, on Saturday evening. Titled ‘30 Yıl Semaha Durduk’ / 30 Years of Perf...
A criminal gang behind the kidnapping, imprisonment, torture, killing and disposing of the body of DJ Koray ‘Bizim FM’ Alpergin have been handed long custodial sentences by a judge at the Old Bailey on Tuesday. Koray, 43, a popular radio presenter in the Turkish community, was initially treated as...
British Turkish Cypriots will again be holding a vigil outside the Republic of Cyprus High Commission in central London to remember the 133 Turkish Cypriot victims killed at the start of the Cyprus Conflict sixty years ago. The details of the vigil were shared by Young Turkish Cypriots (YTC), one o...
Enfield Council and the Turkish Cypriot Community Association are hosting an event next week to try to recruit new foster families to help plug the national shortage of foster carers. Fostering involves caring for children in your home whilst their parents are unable to look after them, which can b...
British think tank CEFTUS, or the Centre for Turkey Studies to give the organisation its full name, has given a platform to a range of politicians, journalists and analysts casting a critical eye over the affairs of Turkiye. In December, the group will be staging an event with renowned journalist,...
After two weeks of deliberations, a jury at the Old Bailey have found two men guilty of killing Mehmet Koray Alpergin.The popular Turkish radio DJ and his girlfriend Gözde Dalbudak were kidnapped outside Mr Alpergin’s Enfield home after a night out in central London last October, the court had heard...
