On Tuesday evening, talented Jazz singer Atila Huseyin will take to the stage at the Hippodrome in London’s Leicester Square to perform some of Nat King Cole’s most memorable early songs including Unforgettable, This Can’t Be Love, Nature Boy, and Mona Lisa. Atila’s new album King for a Day, set for release in early May, […]
Two Turkish Cypriot businessmen are among the UK’s richest one thousand individuals. Compiled annually by the Sunday Times this year’s list, published on 24 April, included Touker Süleyman and Mustafa Kiamil. With a net worth of £200m, business tycoon Touker Süleyman is ranked equal 515 on the list, sharing the spot with former Dragon Duncan […]
Reports have just emerged that Asil Nadir has landed in Istanbul after being released from Belmarsh Prison earlier today. The Turkish Cypriot business tycoon was jailed in 2012 and was serving a ten year sentence after being found guilty of theft of some £29m from his Polly Peck empire 25 years ago. Having spent 5.5 […]
Next month, veteran actor and writer Osman Balıkçıoğlu will debut his new comedy in North London. Two performances of Atma Recep da Din Gardaşıyık will be staged at St. Monica’s Hall in Palmers Green on Sunday 15 May. The play follows the life of a family from Lefkoşa’s Samanbahça district that moves to London with […]
A Turkish Cypriot owned family business has been ranked among Britain’s private companies with the fastest-growing profits. Headquartered in Enfield, JJ Food Service (JJ), a national food and catering wholesaler, appears at number 70 in the annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table, to be published tomorrow. The rankings are based on performance over […]
This Thursday, the Cyprus Islamic Association will be hosting a special prayer night and an inspirational talk by Hoca Husayn Hashim El Bakayi – a well-known religious personality in the British Turkish Cypriot community. Held on Regaip Kandili Gecesi, which this year occurs on 7th April, this holy night of prayer, where candles and minarets […]
Those familiar with the British Turkish Cypriot community may well wonder how such a question could even arise. After all, Turkish Cypriots are highly secular and the younger generations well integrated into British society. So well integrated, that most know very little about their Islamic roots. It’s a topic actor and playwright Cosh Omar explored […]
Two contemporary artists – Iranian Azadeh Ghotbi and Turkish Cypriot jewellery-maker and sculptress Aida Bergsen – have combined their artistry to showcase the inherent beauty and wonder of nature’s cycle of life. The exhibition titled Living – Fading represents the artists’ perceptions of aesthetic elements from nature. Each uses different methods and mediums to magnify […]
A doctor based at Near East University Hospital in Lefkoşa has been given the Young Researcher Award at the 11th International Healthcare and Biological Research Conference (IHBRC) following her innovative approach to microsurgery. Dr Ülvan Özad’s MicroNEU device offers an ethical solution to teaching medicine as it removes the need for learning using live animals. […]
Last month, the award-winning Rosemary Branch Theatre in Islington staged a reading of a new play by Janie Booth. The notes for The Gods are Playing Ninepins had suggested it was a serious drama, but it’s very much a comedy which had me in stitches from the opening lines. Set in East London, an elderly […]
