Prime Minister Keir Starmer continues to announce government positions following last week’s General Election, where Labour won a landslide majority. One of the latest appointments is Enfield North MP Feryal Clark, who becomes Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The announcement was made late on Tuesday, 9 July, […]
On Tuesday, the Labour Party announced that Nesil Caliskan would be its Parliamentary candidate for the upcoming General Election on 4 July 2024. The following day, Caliskan posted on X (formerly Twitter) that she was “honoured to be the Labour candidate for Barking” and that she would be “work hard for every vote”. The East […]
British Turks have joined the huge chorus of criticism levelled at the mass of MPs who abstained or voted against a motion in Parliament calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. An amendment to the King’s Speech, tabled by the Scottish National Party (SNP), called for “all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. […]
Seeing Conservative politicians vote against the ceasefire in Gaza in the UK Parliament was disappointing, but at the same time expected. However, so many abstentions from Labour Party MPs was totally heartbreaking, as it is because of their silence that this genocide against the Palestinian civilians of Gaza is being allowed to continue. Considering that […]
Enfield Council Leader Nesil Caliskan’s trailblazing record in politics continues. On Monday, she was confirmed the Leader of the Labour Group of councillors and mayors within the Local Government Association (LGA) — the first time the Labour Group has been headed by a woman and a person from an ethnic minority background. Caliskan was elected […]
Four years ago, 39 candidates from the British Turkish community were elected as councillors. That number has grown by three this year, setting a new record of 42 councillors following the confirmed results of the 2022 Local Elections on 5 May. There has been a steady increase in the number of people from the Turkish […]
The UK has its second council leader of Turkish Cypriot origin after Councillor Peray Ahmet mounted a successful leadership challenge against the current head of Haringey Labour Joseph Ejiofor. Ahmet beat Ejiofor – the leader of Haringey Council leader since 2018 – by a single vote, according to a report in local newspaper Ham and […]
Labour’s Ayten Güzel has won a local by-election for Southbury ward in the North London Borough of Enfield. Güzel beat six other candidates in the process, securing nearly 600 more votes than her nearest rival, Conservative candidate Patrick Drysdale. The election was called following the death of long-serving Labour ward councillor Chris Bond in July […]
Dear T-VINE, I am a Turkish Cypriot constituent of Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn. I would appreciate it if you could publish this open letter to him about his appearance on Euro Genc TV last month on a programme about the future of Cyprus. Dear Mr Corbyn, I am writing to you as a constituent […]
An important channel of communication has opened up between senior members of the Labour Party and the British Turkish Cypriot community. Representatives from the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations UK – the UK’s largest umbrella group for Turkish Cypriots – have met with Fabian Hamilton, the Shadow Minister for Peace & Disarmament, and Catherine West […]
