First Turkish Cypriot in the House of Lords

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
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Message Posted:
04/06/2010 10:02

A TURKISH Cypriot woman has been appointed to Britain’s House of Lords for the first time, the country’s Liberal Democratic party announced.

“I feel honoured and humbled to be appointed to the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat Working Peer,” Meral Hussein Ece OBE said. “It is a huge privilege for someone from my background.”

Baroness Ece was announced as a working peer late last month after being awarded the OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours in 2009.

Ece has been politically active for more than 20 years, serving as a councillor from 1994 to 2002, in Hackney Council and, councillor for Islington between 2002 and 2010

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/first-turkish-cypriot-house-lords/20100603

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
04/06/2010 11:32

What gets me is the way people allow their names to be misspelled, e.g.

Hussein instead of Huseyin

Djemal instead of Cemal

Moustafa instead of Mustafa

etc.

This practice was very prevalent during the British Rule in Cyprus.

ismet

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
04/06/2010 11:50

Great news indeed,wonder if she will recieve much press,hope so,

Paul.

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
04/06/2010 13:22

Ismet

Sorry about the spelling just a copy and paste from the paper

As a certified dyslexic I never know when its spelt correctly

I blame that Johnson bloke from Lichfield him and his dictionaries



Newlad

Perhaps she can have a word with the law lords about that judge that says the TRNC does not exist have him put on a warning

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
04/06/2010 15:14

Well said and pointed Ismet abi,names are the only things WE inherit from our parents.