Tag: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

The newly elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a Muslim ancestral background and his great-grandfather Ali Kamel was Turkish, said a BBC Urdu report. According to the BBC, citing official birth records, Boris Johnson's paternal grandfather is Osman Wilfred Kemal. Johnson's paternal great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, was a Turkish journalist and politician in the early 1900s. Born in 1867 to a mother of Circassian heritage, Mr Kemal’s journalism allowed him to travel extensively and he visited many countries. One of his destinations was Switzerland, where he met Winifred Brun, an Anglo-Swiss woman...