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Cllr Peray Ahmet re-elected Yaşar Halim opened its third branch

as Haringey Leader ENGLAND'S first Turkish su-
permarket Yaşar Halim opened
in May last year, Cllr Ahmet has put its third branch in London. On
collaboration, cohesion, co-design Friday, May 20, Yaşar Halim's
and co-production with the Harin- new branch opened in Southgate,
gey community at the heart of her North London.
Attending the opening ceremo-
administration. Climate change, ny were Enfield Southgate MP
council housing and community Bambos Charalambous, London
safety have been among some of the Assembly member for Enfield
key priorities for Cllr Ahmet and and Haringey Joanne McCart-
her Cabinet and she has vowed to ney, Enfield Council leader Nesil
continue this valuable partnership Caliskan, and local councillors,
work with community groups and business people and community
IN the Haringey where the Turk- external stakeholders between now members.
'Yaşar Halim' can be said to be
ish-speaking community is dense- and 2026. In a statement Ahmet the most well-known brand in
ly populated within the capital, said: “...The change we need is about Turkish and the Cypriot commu-
a Turkish Cypriot councillor was more than money though. We need nity within Haringey. The found-
re-elected as the council leader for a culture change. We want to have er Yaşar Halim, who was of Cyp-
the second time. Labour council- a very different relationship with riot origin, can be considered the
lor Peray Ahmet was re-elected as local people - breaking down the first example of a Turkish Cypriot marketer bringing Turkish and ing to the Turkish-speaking com-
Haringey Council following the local feeling of an 'us and them' divide. I Cypriot products and tradition- munity but also to foreign ethnic
election held on May 5. Since her in- want us to be competent, collabora- al ingredients under one roof in origins and said, "Although this
itial appointment as Council Leader tive and radical.” London, from its bakery, patisse- branch is smaller than the others
rie sections to butcher and gro-
cery area to can goods could be with 300 square meters, it will be
London ULEZ expansion on the cards as found. a favourite market with its mod-
Mehmet Y. Halim, the son of ern design and disabled-friendly
consultation is launched Yaşar Halim and a second-gen- aisles."

eration marketer, stated that Making a short speech after
JOURNALIST A consultation has leading to thousands of premature he's happiness opening their
been launched on further expand- deaths every year.” Khan has also third branch, and that ‘like oth- the opening ribbon, Labour MP
ing the London ultra-low emission stressed the need to support low-in- er branches, they will offer fresh Charalambous emphasized that
zone (ULEZ). Under the Mayor of come households, disabled people flavours from Cyprus and Turkey the new Yaşar Halim Southgate
London’s proposals, the ULEZ would and charities to buy ULEZ compli- to their customers with the best branch will add colour to the re-
cover the whole of Greater London ant vehicles and introduce exemp- quality.’ Halim stated that their gion and enrich the economy, and
from 29 August 2023. The ULEZ tions where applicable. At a meeting branches are now not only appeal- wished them continued success.
originally covered the same area of on July 1, 2021 the Mayor said: “I
central London as the congestion have no plans to extend the ULEZ
charge zone, before expanding to to outer London. “In March I intro-
cover all the streets inside the North duced tougher London-wide Low Nearly 4,000 maskless London
Circular and South Circular roads. If Emission Zone standards for buses,
the further planned expansion goes coaches and lorries. “Combined with
ahead next year, the AA estimates the ULEZ expansion in October, up passengers hit with fines
that around a third of car owners to but not including the North and
in the newly affected area would be South Circular, this will ensure that
priced off the road. In a consultation 92 per cent of roads London-wide NEARLY 4,000 passengers were the safety of TfL's customers and and after they were a legal require-
document, Sadiq Khan wrote: “We will comply with legal limits for NO2 issued fines for not wearing face staff is "always a top priority". ment, and continuing to strongly
simply don’t have time to waste. The by the end of 2021. Air quality on coverings on London's transport He said: "A range of measures encourage them today. "
climate emergency means we only the remaining roads will be more network when it was mandatory to helped to ensure customers can The stats were released following a
travel safely and confidently on
have a small window of opportuni- effectively addressed through target- do so, new figures show. question to the Mayor's Office from
Compulsory face coverings were TfL's services during the pandemic,
ty left to cut harmful emissions to ed, local measures. I believe that this put in place to stop the spread of including requiring face coverings as Labour Assembly member Krupesh
help save the planet. Toxic air pollu- strikes the right balance to deliver coronavirus and reinstated amid a condition of carriage both before Hirani.
tion is still permanently damaging the biggest air quality improvements rising concerns about the Omicron
the lungs of young Londoners and as quickly as possible.” variant. This rule was removed on
24 February.
Penalty notices up to £200 were
Timur Öztürk held book launch in London issued to 3,996 people between
24 February 2021 and 27 January
JOURNALIST Timur Öztürk’s readers on Sunday, May 22. 2022, the mayor of London said.
new book “The Story of 40 Years – Öztürk’s journalistic new book, Between 27 January 2022 and 24
Unforgettable” will be available to released by the UK-based publish- February 2022, Transport for Lon-
ing house Press Dionysus is a re- don (TfL) said it did not record face
flection of Timur Öztürk’s 40 years covering compliance activity.
in his professional life. Öztürk, in The fines were reduced to £100 if
this book, gathered what he went paid within 14 days. People who re-
through while he was reporting in fused to pay the fine within the time
various countries of the world for 40 limit allowed could be prosecuted,
TfL said.
years between 1980-2020 covering Data revealed 7,283 people were
27 topics.The book launch was held stopped on London's transport net-
on Sunday 22 at Chemen Cafe, 185 work for not wearing a mask.
Stoke Newington, where members The figures also showed 2,325
of the public meet with the author passengers were asked to leave the
and had a chance to disuse the book network.
with Öztürk. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said