Kelami Dedezade, who first became head of the consortium in 2012, was re-elected to this role
Governors at the Turkish Language Culture and Education Consortium of Britain were re-elected under director Kelami Dedezade at their annual general meeting last week.
The meeting, held on Sunday at Hornsey Ataturk School, was also attended by Turkey’s acting education attaché Necip Demirci and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart Hasan Sarper Kortay.
It was chaired by Mansur Işıkbol and saw a pledge for the construction of a Turkish Cultural Centre building to be more actively supported.
Around 2,500 students study at 33 Turkish schools, all of which offer classes at weekends. Plans were also discussed for a weekday school that Turkish children would be able to attend.
The following names were confirmed at the meeting as members of the next board of governors: Ahmet Havalı, Davut Azimkar, Özlem Engür, Necmi Hasanoğlu, Suzan Darbaz, Abdullah Halisdemir, Taşkın Baraç, Erkan Pastırmacıoğlu, Fatih Kahraman, Yılmaz Özdemir, Kezban Kulle, Nilgün Kılıçer and Hülya Zekioğlu.