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My name is Ibrahim Dogus and I’m standing as the Labour candidate in Cities of London and Westminster at the general election.

After coming to London at the age of 14 with my family as political refugees from Turkey, I now run five successful small businesses and 4 charitable organisations in the heart of the city and employ over 60 people.

London has shown my family immense kindness and support. Thanks to our schools, I learned the skills to set up my business, while the dedicated doctors and nurses of the NHS saved my life. 

Launched in December 2016, Bira is the world’s first ever beer created especially as an accompaniment to quality kebabs, grilled meats and BBQ meals. Developed by a master brewer and one of Britain’s leading kebab restaurateurs, Bira goes perfectly with the flavours and spices used in the foods of the Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia. Lovingly crafted over many months of hard work, Bira is certain to make a splash in the UK’s burgeoning kebab restaurant scene.

Labour has in the past been tacitly and even directly accused of being inherently anti-business. The party has been accused of being out of touch with the communities of modern Britain. Both suggestions are patently false. But these suggestions are sadly widespread. And they were I believe partly what prompted people’s surprised reactions when we founded SME for Labour. It is something that the Labour Party can and should work against.

To many of us, it surely seems right now that the world is changing in unexpected, and sometimes scary, ways.

Turkey’s most recent previous coup took place in 1997, was known as a post-modern or ‘soft’ coup. There was no military presence on streets or on air, yet enough pressure was put on the coalition government, by Turkish Army, to cause the Islamist leader of the Welfare Party Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan to resign. His party was subsequently disbanded by the Constitutional Court on the basis that it violated the secular principles of the Turkish Republic.

I am very excited about the launch of my new restaurant the Westminster Kitchen and wanted to share the news on WriteYou. 

Below is a copy of the press release we have issued:

There will be a chance to change the current government by May 2020. However, we will not have an opportunity to vote again for EU membership if we leave on the 24th June. The vote we have on the 23rd June requires us to make a bigger decision than a general election. After every election there will be another one and we can vote people out. The EU referendum is a once in a lifetime decision.