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- Hackney politician Mete Coban takes up new role as Sadiq Khan’s environmental chiefMete Coban has quit his day job at My Life, My Say and role as a Hackney Councillor to take up a new position at City Hall as Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy. The northeast London politician announced his new role on X (formerly Twitter) last week,… Read more »
- “Martyn’s Law will definitely save lives” – Figen Murray’s delight as draft bill included in King’s SpeechFigen Murray, the mother of Manchester Arena terrorist attack victim Martyn Hett, has hailed the inclusion of Martyn’s Law in the King’s Speech on 17July. It is one of 39 bills the new Labour Government intends to adopt as part of its programme of legislation in the new Parliamentary session.… Read more »
- Competition: win a pair of tickets to see About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne) at a Picturehouse CinemaThe award-winning Turkish film About Dry Grasses / Kuru Otlar Üstüne comes to cinemas across Britain and Ireland this Friday, 26 July. Shot in Erzurum and Adıyaman, the movie centres on a schoolteacher, Samet, who is accused of inappropriate behaviour towards Sevim, one of his pupils in a school in… Read more »
- A talk about Turkish trailblazer Halide Edib’s views of ‘The English as Occupier and Host’Halide Edib (1884-1964) is one of those figures whose life runs through the end of the Ottoman Empire to the first years of the Turkish republic. She was a writer, warrior and politician who fell out with Atatürk and spent the years 1925-1936 in exile abroad, mostly in England. Halide… Read more »
- UK and Ireland cinema release for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s award-winning film About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)Grabbing attention with his very first film, Koza [Cocoon] – which became the first Turkish short movie to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has firmly established himself as one of the world’s finest film directors, producing cinematic epics such as Winter Sleep, Three Monkeys,… Read more »
- King Charles meets Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at European summitAzerbaijan’s leader, Ilham Aliyev, had the opportunity to meet with King Charles III earlier this week. The two men were pictured talking on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit that took place at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The British Embassy in Baku posted a picture of their exchange… Read more »
- Barnet Council rejects accusations of “institutionalised racism” against Turks in the boroughThe Leader of Barnet Council Barry Rawlings has rejected accusations from local residents of Turkish and Turkish Cypriot descent that the local authority is “racist”, calling them “unsubstantiated claims” at a recent council meeting. Councillor Rawlings’ comments prompted an angry exchange with a group of residents present in the public… Read more »
- Join Elif Shafak for an evening in Oxford talking about her new book ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’Later this year, Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre will be hosting bestselling author Elif Shark (Şafak in Turkish), who will be discussing her new novel ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’, which is due out in August. The book is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times,… Read more »
- New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets President Erdoğan at NATO SummitBritain’s newly elected Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer has had an opportunity to hold face-to-face meetings with a number of world leaders at the 75th anniversary NATO Heads of State Summit last week, among them President Erdoğan of Turkiye. The two men met on Thursday 11 July – the final… Read more »
- Yunus Emre Institute London’s Srebrenica remembrance panellists call for better education to prevent future genocidesLast week, the Yunus Emre Institute’s London branch hosted a “heartfelt tribute” to the victims of the Srebrenica massacre, which took place 29 years ago. This act of genocide, committed by Bosnian Serbs against Bosnian Muslims in July 1995, resulted in the murder of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in… Read more »
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