Ever since 2004, a music festival has been organised in Gümüşlük, a town near Bodrum on Turkey’s Aegean coast. The festival was originally the brainchild of a group of musicians led by two pianists – ...

We write with great sadness of the sudden death of Briony Llewellyn, a dear friend to many and a notable contributor to Cornucopia. Briony's lifelong work on British artists in the Near and Middle ...

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 ...

Just one of those days: the Galata Bridge seen through driving rain. Faik Şenol (1912–81), one of the heroes of early Republic photography, acted as Atatürk’s personal photographer, is the focus of ...

This recital of works by Schubert and Chopin features pianist Mehveş Emeç. Born in Istanbul in 1963 as the daughter of the celebrated journalist Çetin Emeç, she is currently a teacher at the Marmara ...

On October 15 I made my way to Beyoğlu for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by the artist Rahşan Düren entitled Verwegenheit, which I believe means ‘audacity’ or ‘boldness’ in German. I had ...

This concert features jazz arrangements for big band by the multi-talented and highly experienced arranger, composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue Emin Fındıkoğlu (1940-). On this occasion, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can a young Lancastrian build an organ so spectacular it will impress the most powerful man in the world and change the reputation of England on the world stage? A BBC Radio play (44mins) based ...

Intense and sustained research focussed on a well-defined, circumscribed region, across several decades and through numerous archaeological and palaeoenvironmental projects has created a uniquely rich ...

Talk by Prof. Abdülhamit Kırmızı (Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Association at the University of Toronto), and author of a book of the same title. The following is an account of Prof. Kırmızı’s ...