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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlos Garaicoa is a versatile artist working across multiple mediums and disciplines, including sculpture, photography, installation, and architecture. His practice delves into diverse themes such as ...

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 ...

On January 11 2025 I attended a Coffee Concert at the Atatürk Cultural Centre in Taksim. These concerts take place on Saturday mornings in the downstairs foyer – where concertgoers go for refreshments ...

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