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Semra Eren-Nijhar (born 1967, Istanbul) is an author, artist and sociologist.

She is the founder of the ‘Turkish Heritage in the UK’ initiative as well as the joint founder with Councillor Ahmet Karahasan of the “Turkish Heritage Day in London” - launched on December 8th 2014 at Enfield Council.

Her work ‘London Turks - In Their Own Words’ which chronicles the Turkish community over the last sixty years with photographs, interviews and portraits in the UK was the first work on the Turkish diaspora in Britain and was exhibited and acknowledged by the Greater London Authority, Major of London in 2006 and later in 2007 at the European Parliament hosted by MEP’s Claude Moraes, Cem Özdemir, Emine Bozkurt and Vural Öger with the attendance of the Ambassador Volkan Bozkır, the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the European Union.

She has worked on the twice Nobel Prize nominee Turkish Cypriot poet Osman Türkay and has enabled his work to come to life again in Europe and in Turkey.

Eren-Nijhar worked for several years in the House of Lords as an adviser to a peer, Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich.

The documentary “Söz Bizde – We Have the Voice”, co-produced and directed with Ersin Atlı in 2010 was shown by Turkey’s national broadcaster, TRT.

Eren-Nijhar is using creative techniques from the world of arts by drawing in people’s interest to her sociological research outcomes and findings.

= She has exhibited her photographic exhibitions in Britain, Belgium and in Turkey. Her work mainly focuses on portraits of individuals =