İbrahim Doğuş

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İbrahim Doğuş
İbrahim Doğuş at Troia restaurant with a sample of his Bira beer.
İbrahim Doğuş at Troia restaurant with a sample of his Bira beer
Councillor for
Lambeth London Borough Council
Assumed office
May 2018
Ward Thornton
Personal details
Born May 1980
Political party Labour
Children 2 daughters

İbrahim Doğuş (born July 1980)[1] is a British politician, entrepreneur and restaurateur. He is founder of the Centre for Turkey Studies. Since May 2018, Doğuş has served as a Lambeth Borough councillor representing the Bishop's Ward. He is also the Deputy Mayor of the borough.

In the 2017 UK general election, he was the parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency.

Personal life

He is the son of Kurdish refugees from Turkey who arrived in the UK in 1994.[2][3] In a 2017 interview, he stated that although he was born into a Muslim family, he did not practice any religion.[4] He has two children.[5]

Career

Business

Doğuş is a former waiter, and owner of three restaurants: Troia, in Waterloo, London, Westminster Kitchen, near Westminster Bridge, and Cucina.[3][4] He attracted media attention in 2017 when he fed hundreds of emergency service workers for free at Troia in the wake of the 2017 Westminster attack: all three of his restaurants were located in the cordoned-off exclusion zone near the attack.[4][5]

He founded the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS), which organises the British Kebab Awards.[6][7] The British Kebab Awards have been presented by several prominent politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan.

Doğuş is owner of the beer brand Bira, which is produced under contract by Molson Coors UK, and marketed as the world's first beer as accompaniment to kebabs.[8]

He established the free community newspaper Lambeth Life.[9]

Politics

He is a commentator on Turkish, Kurdish and UK politics.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

Doğuş became a community activist in the early 2000s, and was shot while trying to combat drug crime in Hackney, where he lived.[16][17][18]

He is founder of the Centre for Kurdish Progress[19][20][21] and the SME4Labour group.[22][23][24] Doğuş has long been an active organiser for the Turkish and Kurdish community in London and the UK.[8]

As the parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency in the June 2017 UK general election,[25][26] he gained an 9.25% swing for Labour, and came second with 14,857 votes (38.4%). The following year he was elected as a member of Lambeth London Borough Council for the Bishop's ward,[9][27] and in May 2018 he was selected by Labour to be the next deputy mayor of the borough.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Ibrahim DOGUS - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  2. ↑
  3. 1 2 "Troia owner opens new restaurant Westminster Kitchen". BigHospitality.co.uk.
  4. 1 2 3 Rickman, Dina (25 March 2017). "Restaurant owner fed emergency workers for free during Westminster attack". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  5. 1 2 Morrison, Sean (26 March 2017). "Restaurateur fed emergency workers for free during London terror attack". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Ibrahim Dogus".
  7. ↑ Miranda Larbi for Metro. co.uk (27 February 2017). "The British Kebab Awards 2017: The ups, the downs, and the completely bizarre".
  8. 1 2 "Kebab king of London talks beer and Brexit". ft.com.
  9. 1 2 3 Doğuş, İbrahim (22 May 2018). "My journey to become deputy mayor of Lambeth shows London is a land of opportunity". LabourList. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "Turkey needs a moderating friend in Brexiting Britain". 10 February 2017 – via The Guardian.
  11. ↑ "The neo-liberal extremism of the Tories - LabourList". 3 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "In the chaos of the Middle East, the world must stand behind the Kurds".
  13. ↑ "Why this year can be a year of hope for the world's Kurds".
  14. ↑ "After Isis is defeated, the battle for Mosul really begins".
  15. ↑ "Entrepreneurs: The kebab king who has being an MP on his menu too". Evening Standard. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  16. ↑ "Entrepreneurs: The kebab king who has being an MP on his menu too". 13 June 2016.
  17. ↑ "Meet the MPs' favourite restaurateur: "Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will get free pudding if they make up"".
  18. ↑ "Muslim restaurant owner fed emergency workers for free during Westminster attack". 25 March 2017.
  19. ↑ "Kurdish Newroz celebrations kick off in London". Rudaw. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  20. ↑ Society, People’s Printing Press. "Why the silence on Turkey's brutality towards the Kurds?". Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  21. ↑ "www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/ea78dc3c-2091-48ad-980f-00ab2fa4d416/Son-of-Kurdish-refugees-launches-bid-to-become-MP". www.kurdistan24.net. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  22. ↑ "Why we have set up SME4Labour | Progress | News and debate from the progressive community". Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  23. ↑ "It's time to make sure that Labour represents small business | LabourList". LabourList | Labour's biggest independent grassroots e-network. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  24. ↑ Steer, Joe. "Labour in the City » SME4Labour and LiTC fundraiser for Sadiq Khan a big success". Labour in the City. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  25. ↑ "A message from our candidate: Ibrahim Dogus". Cities of London & Westminster Labour Party. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  26. ↑ "İbrahim Doğuş İngiltere'nin Merkezinden Milletvekili Adayı". Haberler.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  27. ↑ "Election results for Bishop's". London Borough of Lambeth. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
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