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Jul 8, 2024 | t-vine.com | Sonya Karafistan

I’m a Londoner of mixed Turkish and Turkish Cypriot descent, who has lived in the London Borough of Barnet for twenty years. Like many other British Turks inside and outside of this north London borough, I have seen my local authority’s relentless anti-Turkish and anti-Turkish Cypriot bias over many years. It’s gotten to the point where we’re not surprised by it anymore; many have even normalised it.

Jul 3, 2024 | t-vine.com | Edward Rowe

It should come as no surprise that Türkiye is home to a wealth of spectacular Ottoman mosques. The six-hundred-year Ottoman state left a powerful mark between its foundation in 1299, to its demise in 1923. This is especially true of the empire’s former capital Istanbul, and its heartlands in Anatolia and Thrace. What is particularly impressive however, is the way they vary in appearance from time to place.

Jun 12, 2024 | t-vine.com | Fevzi Hussein

Rishi Sunak has sounded the klaxon for the General Election, which will take place on Thursday, 4 July 2024. Most political commentators see no way back for the Conservatives and their miserable period of government lasting 14 years is finally about to come to a crashing end.

Apr 14, 2024 | t-vine.com | Sonya Karafistan

This week, Altın Gün packed out East London’s art déco gem Troxy for an exhilarating evening of infectious music and vibrant energy as 3,000 fans danced with wild abandon to the sounds of these Amsterdam-based masters of Anatolian pysch-folk. Thursday’s concert was likely the last London performance with front lady Merve Daşdemir. Her vocal talents beautifully compliment those of Erdinç Ecevit Yıldız, who also plays bağlama and keys for the band.

Jan 29, 2024 | t-vine.com | Edward Rowe

A “chauffeur-driven” Istanbul cat has received an outpouring of affection after footage of the feline sitting on the bonnet of a moving car surfaced on social media. The video was captured by an onlooker and shared on Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter) with the captions ‘Cats of Istanbul’ and ‘Cats’ favourite city’. The two posts combined gained over 250,000 likes, and the video was viewed over 2 million times on X alone. Social media users expressed delight at the spectacle.