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Ashura Day to be held “Turkish Warrior” conned

by the Enfield Alevi lover out of thousands

Cultural Centre A woman says she was”blinded by

love” after her conman ex-boyfriend
ENFIELD Alevi Cultural Centre in the Battle of Karbala used his mother’s cancer diagnosis to
will share Ashura Lokma at the Enfield Alevi Cultural Centre said: fleece her of more than £14,000.
British Alevi Federation recreation “Ashura is a celebration of differenc- Umit Sucu told Alison Wood about
ground, north London on Sunday, es, Ashura means all for one, one for his ill parent and said he needed
August 28. all, Ashura is the symbol of unity money to send abroad for her treat-
Enfield Alevi Cultural Centre will and equality, Ashura is the meet- ment, a court heard.
be sharing Ashura Lokma with ing of different tastes and colours. But the former boxer known in the
members and the community, the Therefore, we are very honored to ring as the “Turkish Warrior” used
event which is organized every year see all souls among us on our day of the cash to fund his lifestyle at home
marks the memory the martyrdom Ashura.” instead.
of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the The event will take place at 1pm Sucu, 44, was handed a suspended
Islamic prophet Muhammad, and on Sunday, 28 August at Cambridge sentence earlier this month and was
members of his immediate family Rd, London N9 9LE'. told to pay back a total of £14,600.
But Ms Wood, 51, claims she is
actually owed at least double that He claimed he was struggling to married.
amount. access his bank account in Istanbul She alleges that she then visited
She said of the ordeal: “I was blind- and proceeded to ask Ms Wood for his wife’s place of work, who he had
ed by what I thought was love, but a string of payments to the tune of claimed to have divorced and she
now I see what he really is. £13,600. confirmed that they were living to-
“It’s just a shame it took me as long She paid up and also handed over gether in a council house.
as it did to figure it out.” a further £1,000 after Sucu said he Sucu, of Thornbury in south
A court heard the pair started a Gloucestershire, was caught in Oc-
relationship after meeting in a pub – needed to pay a fine. tober 202 and pleaded guilty to two
where he was supposedly celebrating But prosecutors at Bristol Crown counts of fraud.
his divorce – in October 2018. Court said Sucu did not send the He was handed a two-year sus-
But Sucu soon became “pushy” money abroad – and actually used it pended sentence and 200 hours
about Ms Wood’s finances in the to pay for “every day items such as community service at Bristol Crown
months that followed, it was said. loans and tickets.” Court earlier this month.
And then, during a holiday in Tu- According to Ms Wood, Sucu’s lies Sucu was also ordered to pay back
nisia, he said that his mother, who began to unravel when she bumped £7,120 to Alison Ms Wood the court
lives at his family home in Turkey, into his ex-girlfriend a year into their accepted he had already refunded her
had breast cancer. relationship, who told her he was still £9,000 prior to sentencing.

Big Has HOME : Recipes from

North London to North Cyprus

HASAN Semay (also known as BBQ and how to prepare a variety of love and attitude.'
Dr camurcuoglu’s work to Big Has) is a bright and talented dishes from small plates to Turkish His food is beautiful and robust
North-London based chef and You-
Cypriot classics as well as meat and with familiar Mediterranean influ-
Tube presenter with thousands of fish straight off the grill. ences from his Cypriot heritage as
be exhibited in London followers has released his first cook and tried his hand at odd jobs from well as from his time working in
Having dropped out of school
book.
Fans of Hasan's Instagram page plumbing to security, Hasan was ac- professional kitchens across London
A collection of precious ancient than just restoration for display. By and enormously popular YouTube cepted onto the prestigious Jamie - think grilled butter-milk chicken
glass objects that were shattered by scanning the new surfaces of the series 'Sunday Sessions' where he Oliver "15" programme in 2011 thighs with chermoula, flame-licked
the devastating Beirut port blast in glass that were revealed by the dam- has been teaching his viewers how which unearthed a true passion and steak and salsa verde, marinat-
August 2020 have been restored and age from the explosion, researchers to appreciate ingredients and under- flair for cooking. HOME is his debut ed lamb chops with salsa rossa, all
put on display in London’s British were able to analyze glass-blowing stand cooking not through dull step- cookbook and a celebration of the countered by neat folds of glistening
Museum. styles and strategies used in Leba- by-step methods but by connecting dishes, the places and the people home-made pasta and the occasion-
The Archaeological Museum of the non in the first century BC. more intuitively with the process. In that have made him who he is today. al jaw-dropping dessert. Now don't
American University of Beirut in the It was a critical time for glasswork, this debut cookbook, Has takes those With his former employer Jamie think this means flashy, fiddly food -
Lebanese capital boasted 74 glass opening up new methods and exper- principles to the next level talking Oliver saying 'Outrageously deli- this is real food, treated with respect
vessels, 72 of which were destroyed imental styles that led to the mass you through the stages of lighting a cious, addictive food cooked with big and cooked right - no tablecloths or
by the shockwaves of the ammoni- production of glass products. fancy china, just your friends, round
um nitrate explosion. Camurcuoglu said analysis re- the BBQ proper Sunday session style,
But after months of recovery work, vealed manufacturing techniques because food is a celebration of com-
eight of the ancient artifacts have that were “unique” to the area, while ing together.
been recovered for viewing in Brit- the glass also shed light on mate- "This book is just about food. Noth-
ain. rials and coloring. She added that
Dr. Duygu Camurcuoglu, a conser- evidence of recycling was also found ing flashy, no expensive equipment
vator at the museum in London, said during the investigation. and gizmos. It's entirely about fla-
the vessels had lost their ancient per- Six of the eight vessels are from vours and understanding. Food in
fections due to the explosion, but the the Roman period; the other two are its entirety is more than about fill-
recovery team has ensured they are from the late Byzantine or early Is- ing your stomach; it's about stories,
now structurally sound. “It is very, lamic period. history, and those shared moments."
very hard to hide broken glass,” she Camurcuoglu said it is rare to dis- Hasan said.
said when speaking to The Times. cover full examples of early Roman Big Has HOME can be purchases
But the recovery allowed for more glassworks in the Middle East. online and in book stores .