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 – ...

The Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab, declared ‘the coolest rock star in the world right now’ by ‘Uncut’ magazine, blends jazz, minimalism and South Asian traditions with avant-pop.Vulture Prince, her ...

Floating Islands Istanbul Modern’s ninth collection exhibition, “Floating Islands,” is spread across different areas of the museum, in addition to the exhibition hall. The exhibition presents a ...

The Bova Jazz Club, towards the Taksim end of İstiklal Caddesi, regularly hosts some of Turkey’s finest jazz musicians. They organise events every day of the month, and are especially strong on modern ...

A scholar residing in Wallachia’s capital city of Bucharest in 1719 observed in a letter to his friend, a Patriarch: “All Phanar is here; I no longer recall Istanbul.” By “Phanar,” he was referring to ...

The word Sufi often conjures up images of Turkish whirling dervishes turning gracefully round themselves in a mystical ceremony. But outside the world of Islamic mysticism, not much is known of the ...

This is the first exhibition of work by Mehtap Baydu to be held in Turkey. Focussing on the relationship between the body and the outside world, and curated by Selen Ansen, it is a selection of new ...

At Enka Sanat's Gala Concert in İstinye on April 19, the seven musicians appear in order of age, starting with Aktan Odabaşı, a cellist from Ankara, seen below performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No 1.

Tayfun Erdoğmuş uses plants, minerals, hand-made paper, and chemical and acrylic solutions in his work, collecting them like a naturalist or an alchemist. This exhibition, curated by Eda Berkmen, is a ...

On April 19th I attended a concert in the auditorium of the ENKA compound on the hill leading down from Maslak towards İstinye. The event, a Gala Concert, featured performances by seven young ...

On Thursday, April 2 I attended a concert at the Notre Dame de Sion French Lycée in Harbiye, Istanbul that featured the ‘Bosphorus Trio’. Founded in 2016, this ensemble consists of violinist Özgecan ...

This paper investigates the Levantine Frank community in Athens under Ottoman rule. It focuses primarily on the latter half of the eighteenth century, when a small number of Western Europeans, mainly ...