When hundreds of millions of people are starving in Africa, India, and Latin America; when the world spends about 700 billion US dollars on defends; and when the ghastliest universal holocaust is threatening Homo sapiens daily, the celestial voice of a wondrous poet who preaches world order, peace and love becomes the harbinger of an ineffable paradise. Prof. Dr. Panos D. Bardis - Toledo University, 1988 Osman Türkay has always kept a delicate balance between science and the humanities. Muzeffer Uyguner - P

The history of Turkish people in Britain is not as short as many would presume but is quite under researched. There is some research on the history of Turks in Britain but still many people do not know that ‘Güvercinlik’ (pigeon-loft) is the term given by the first Turkish arrivals to Trafalgar Square, London. It is where the first Turks (mainly Turkish Cypriots) used to meet. This was their one and only meeting point out of necessity as they did not have any associations, cafes or restaurants of their o