Culture/Art
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Film about Armenian Istanbul Premieres in Turkey
in Culture/Art“I Left My Shoes in Istanbul,” a documentary film by Beirut-based writer and director Nigol Bezjian, was screened at the Istanbul Independent Film Festival in […]
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Unpublished Yunus Emre poems discovered
in Culture/ArtA collection of 17 never before published Yunus Emre poems were discovered in an Istanbul bookstore. 17 unpublished poems belonging to renowned Sufi mystic Yunus […]
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Turkey confirms Rabati castle agreement
Turkey’s ambassador to Georgia confirms that experts from Turkey have visited Rabati castle and requested certain ‘changes and improvements’ for the complex. Two days ago, […]
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Turkey’s non-Muslims expect more than mere calls of return
in Culture/ArtLaki Vingas (Photo: Sunday’s Zaman, Kürşat Bayhan) 24 March 2013 /YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN, İSTANBUL Nikolaos Uzunoğlu and his family had to leave Turkey in 1974 […]
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Turkey brings a gentle version of the Ottoman empire back to the Balkans
Growing presence in Bosnia has given Turkey an expanding field of influence in Europe Michael Birnbaum for the Washington Post Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 2 April 2013 14.03 […]
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Miniature Paintings of Istanbul
in Culture/ArtMiniature Paintings of Istanbul Hasan Kale is known to utilize small objects as canvases for his paintings. The Turkish artist uses fruit seeds, wings of taxidermied […]