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Kenan Habalı
A One-Year Plan, Forty Years Later During the holidays my dad would tell me to work for him at his tailor shop in Ankara, but I had no interest at all. It was when…
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Travelling to Turkiye
The red, white and blue nylon laundry bags. They came in various sizes, their swollen bodies sealed shut with layers of scotch tape, lined up obediently beside the Ford Granada. My brother at the…
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Cassette Letters
When my parents first moved to London communication with the homeland was never that easy. There wasn’t a phone in the accommodation they stayed in and neither did my grandparents have a phone in…
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Hasibe Gur
I think I was around 8 years old walking through Trent Park, and from a distance I could hear a familiar tune played on the darbuka. We couldn’t see anyone around, but mum paused…
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Bundles
Amongst those who travelled abroad to meet the labour needs of Western Europe were many who travelled from Turkey and Cyprus to work in textile factories. They were faced with a foreign environment, no…
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Mehmet Ozbudak
When words of conversations are many years lived. Arrived at London in October 1971 with two other friends, the 24-year-old Mehmet Amca was keen to find the factory he was assigned to work at.…
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Cay
Historically, dating back to the Ottoman Empire the Coffee Houses have been a great importance as a place where the production of traditional folk culture were narrated and displayed as well as public education…
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Erol Amca
Erol Amca had a factory in the East end of London that staffed over 40 workers, which now occupies as a trendy pop-up studio. This is the factory I spent several school holidays racing…
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The bond between Kadayif & Shredded Wheat
She invited me to her room telling me she had a surprise. Then handed over a plate as I sat on the divan. At the time where Turkish food was so limited,‘Where did you…
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