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Anglo-Turkish Concert to be

held in London

EMRE Aracı joins the Chamber
Ensemble of London in a concert
to introduce and conduct his orig-
inal string arrangements, select-
ed from this lost world of musical
ephemera, to create in the words
of The Gramophone “an unexpect-
edly attractive collection”, and in
doing so brings back the glories of
a vanished and elegant past, which
once flourished along the banks of
the Bosphorus in the nineteenth
Suna Alan to take the stage century. Composer, conductor and
music historian Dr Emre Aracı’s
at Mildmay Club research interests cover Euro–Ot-
toman musical exchange in the
nineteenthcentury. A graduate of
THE Neighbours will take ish folk songs, her repertoire the University of Edinburgh, he is Pasha,master of music to the sul- Anglo-Turkish Concert with the
you on a musical journey with also includes Armenian, Greek, based inthe United Kingdom and tans,and a history of the Naum Chamber Ensemble of London will
the songs, dance and food at Sephardic, Arabic and Turkish has recorded numerous CDs in this Theatre, Istanbul’s long-vanished be hled on 20 April 2022 at Conway
the Mildmay Club. songs. field in Londonand Prague,released operahouse. Dr Aracı pursues a Hall 25 Red Lion Square, London
Perfomers will also includ- Music will also be performed by Warnerand Brilliant Classics. freelance music career, under the WC1R 4RL, for more information
ed Suna Alan a Kurdish-Alevi by the SOAS Rebetiko Band is a He has alsowritten several books, patronage of the Çarmıklı family of and tickets visit www.conwayhall.
singer based in London. Her group of Greek musicians and includingabiography of Donizetti Turkey. org.uk.
family moved to Smyrna (Iz- singers who play the music of
mir) in her early childhood Greece known as Rebetiko, a
which meant that much of her
formative years were spent genre that has been called the Teenagers jailed for life
surrounded by traditional ‘urban blues’ of Greece.
Kurdish dengbêj (*bard) mu- The event will take place on
sic and Kurdish-Alevi laments Saturday April 7th and to get over Rambo knife murder
within a rich cosmopolitan cul- tickets and book your place you
tural environment. Although can visit
her main focus remains Kurd- https://mildmay.club/.
TWO boys who murdered an in- knives?” Eren handed himself in to police
nocent teenager in the shadow of Mr Vandev was in the centre of two days later after learning he was
the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium the violent melee, trying to “calm wanted.
as he remonstrated with them for things down”, said the judge. The court heard both killers had
carrying knives have been jailed for “You, Ali Tasyurdu, said to him no criminal history and came from
life. ‘do you think I won’t shank you’ “decent, supportive families” who
Ali Tasyurdu, 18, and Huseyin and moments later you did just were shocked to learn what they
Eren, 16, had armed themselves that.” had done.
with fearsome Rambo knives when He said Eren was “plainly part of When questioned in custody by a
a social media spat over a girl the joint criminal enterprise”. He probation officer, Tasyurdu said he
spilled over into a physical con- added: “You left Nikolay Vandev to would now tell teenagers carrying
frontation. die moments later.” knives: “Put it down, go to univer-
Judge Dodd agreed to lift report- Eren, then still a schoolboy from sity, and play football.”
ing restrictions on Eren’s identity Tottenham, and Tasyurdu, of Is- Tasyurdu and Eren were both
National Insurance rise starts in spite of his young age in a bid to lington, ditched one of the knives found guilty after a trial of murder
deter others from carrying deadly in Tottenham marshes but it was and causing grievous bodily harm.
to hit pay packets knives. discovered by a dog walker and They had both admitted posses-
He added: “If only you and oth- linked to the stabbings. sion of a knife.
EMPLOYEES, businesses and the self-employed pay it on their profits. er young men who think it’s clever Tasyurdu was arrested on the day Tasyurdu was ordered to serve a
self-employed will pay an extra 1.25p In September, the government to take murderous weapons out on of the murder after he confessed minimum of 16 years in prison and
in the pound. The government says announced the rise in contributions to the street would stop and think to a family member that he had Eren was jailed for at least 14 years
it will spend it on health and social from 6 April, in part to help ease the instead of the wonder of life before stabbed someone. of his life sentence.
care. burden on the NHS. going on to destroy it, so much
Opposition MPs said it exacerbat- It means that, instead of paying pain would be avoided.”
ed cost of living pressures, but miti- National Insurance contributions of The murder happened on March
gation will be introduced in July. 12% on earnings up to £50,270 and 8 last year, close to the Spurs sta-
Experts are urging people to check 2% on anything above that, employ- dium and in a spot in Penshurst
their status as a new tax year starts. ees will now pay 13.25% and 3.25% Road, Tottenham, where pupils at
Earnings levels at which people Haringey Sixth Form college – on
start to pay income tax have been respectively. The self-employed will its first day back after lockdown –
frozen, increasing the chances of see equivalent rates go up from 9% would regularly gather.
employees being dragged into a new and 2% to 10.25% and 3.25%. After they had stabbed his friend,
band - with a higher rate of tax - if From now, employees will pay Na- Nikolay Petrov Vandev, 19, tried to
they receive a pay rise. tional Insurance contributions on act as a peacemaker, bravely stand-
Employees pay National Insurance earnings above £9,880 a year. From ing in front of Tasyurdu and Eren
on their wages, employers pay ex- July, it will be paid on earnings above with his arms outstretched, ask-
tra contributions for staff, and the £12,570 a year. ing: “Why on earth have you used