Istanbul


  • Istanbul: Beautiful and affordable

    By Khadijah Bawazeer As time goes by, we abandon old affiliations and develop new ones. Due to the Arab Spring in Egypt and Syria and […]

  • Exploring another era

    Exploring another era

    By Isabel Conway THERE are places one loves before ever seeing them. Istanbul, an ancient metropolis astride two continents, is a good example, conjuring up […]

  • ‘Istanbul’: A Twisted Tale Of Foreign Espionage

    ‘Istanbul’: A Twisted Tale Of Foreign Espionage

    The big war is over, and the Cold War has just begun. Leon Bauer, an American tobacco man, wonders how to fit into this new […]

  • AS HE LAY DYING by Cem Ryan

    AS HE LAY DYING by Cem Ryan

    As he lay dying in those autumn afternoons of 1938, Atatürk had one abiding desire. He longed for those distant days on horseback, just one more afternoon riding in the hills above the Bosphorus. He would go again with his military academy classmate, Ali Fuat, to the sultan’s hunting lodge in Alemdağ. They would once…

  • Homesick for Istanbul

    Homesick for Istanbul

    It happens every time I go to Istanbul. I visit for a few days and the city embeds itself so far under my skin that […]

  • Will İstanbul Become a Global City?

    Will İstanbul Become a Global City?

    İt was odd to go straight from the London elections to an academic conference on multiculturalism in İstanbul, organised by the İslington-based Dialogue Society, but […]