The works of the Portuguese-British artist, Paula Rego, are now exhibited in Turkey for the first time. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition was planned with the participation of the late artist, ...

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

The curtain rose to reveal an enormous sculpture of a horse’s head, equalling the height of the theatre and encased in a cube of LED-lit scaffolding. This was the opening night of Handel’s Tamerlano, ...

St Anthony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6JF Visiting Syrian musician, Ibrahim Muslimani, and Oxford Maqam, the UK’s most prominent Arab Classical Music ensemble are giving a concert at ...

On June 8 I took a train on the Marmaray line to Söğütlüçeşme, the station in the valley behind Kadıköy through which the Kurbağalıdere Stream passes on its way to join the Sea of Marmara.

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

New excavations in Turkey have rekindled interest in Hermogenes, the Hellenistic architect whom Vitruvius credits with a number of temple innovations. This conference brings together specialists from ...

The 2021 John Martin Lecture of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies will be given by the eminent Ottoman historian Colin Imber, who is also an expert on Islamic law. His talk, ‘The Joy of ...

Readers of Cornucopia might think they need no introduction to the work of Monica Fritz. For the last decade she has been photographer at large for this magazine, returning from assignments with sharp ...

Tickets on sale at the website. Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Harbiye, 34367 Istanbul The Istanbul Art and Antique Fair is back! Stop by and say hello, we’ll be at our ...

Many will have heard of MI5 & MI6 but probably not of MI9, the agency responsible for helping escapes from Axis-held territory. Lieut. Cdr Noël C Rees OBE RNVR, born into a wealthy Levantine family ...

The longest-running jazz club in Turkey is Nardis, close to the Galata Tower. Opened in 2002 by guitarist and jazz mentor Önder Focan and his wife Zuhal, who runs Jazz Dergisi (‘Jazz Magazine’), it ...