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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before Turkey had a modern art scene, the Şakir Pasha family was sketching its outlines. From the pioneering paintings of Fahrelnissa Zeid to the neo- mythic literature of Cevat Şakir Kabaagaçh, the ...

The joy of travel at Meşher, ‘In Bloom’ at the Ashmolean, reinterprating the Arab Hall, and the Orient expressed at the Met.

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 ...

Forest fires have taken a horrific toll in Turkey. In this extract from her new book, The Genius of Trees, Harriet Rix reveals why pines will always win the day in their life-struggle with firs, ...