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Matt A. Hanson
reports
Photographer of old: Robert Capa’s legacy on display in İstanbul
This is the art of Robert Capa, a comprehensive dash of whose life’s work is brilliantly exhibited by the Ara Güler Museum, an establishment that might make its namesake proud for its vivid, immersive pictorial invention.
30 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Neolithic 'amphitheater' uncovered at Karahantepe archaeological site
"The main purpose was to bring people together. This design continued in later eras in the form of amphitheaters and odeons,” said Prof. Karul.
27 November 2025
Turkey dismisses concerns over crane use in Hagia Sophia restoration
Authorities say the construction machinery is operating on a specially designed platform, not directly on Hagia Sophia’s surface.
26 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Dark World: Anatolian shadows and the legacy of Âşık Veysel
Blinded by sickness as a child, later losing two infant daughters to the pandemic of infant mortality that plagued Turkey’s heartlands, what the Anatolian people starved for in terms of physical substance they made up for by the richness of their cultural heritage. That was the treasure that remains of Âşık Veysel.
22 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Feline paralysis: Selections from the 18th İstanbul Biennial
The Biennial, for all of its maximalism, concentrated in the overpopulated heart of downtown, European İstanbul, conveys moments of focus that startlingly visualize unseen elements behind inner-workings of power that affect the global majority.
15 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Can Akgümüş reframes power in 'Triarchy'
Triarchy is a timely evocation of creative experimentation with the image of control as it descends from a single person, most often a man, to the principle of the triad that is reflected in the foundations of Western government where imbalances in the executive order are checked by the branches of judicial and legislative administration.
10 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Photographer Yıldız Çelik’s portraits of labor and life in 1980s now accessible online
The collection made accessible by Salt Research highlights Yıldız Çelik’s photographs from the late 1980s, focusing on scenes around Kazlıçeşme and the Galata Bridge.
5 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Gaza Biennial İstanbul Pavilion: Survival and memory amid war and erasure
The “A Cloud in My Hand” pavilion brings together works by Palestinian artists and their allies, transforming absence into presence and mourning into creative resistance.
3 November 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Bilal Seçkin
reports
Koma Amed band returns to Diyarbakır after 30 years: ‘Berî her tiştî Kurdîm’
Koma Amed, one of the most popular Kurdish music groups of the 1990s, has returned to the country after many years in exile.
28 October 2025
Bilal Seçkin
Julia Yalçın-Frank
writes
The Beloved from Halabja
It is a novel of longing—for the region, for its voice—woven out of magical realism and modern epic.
26 October 2025
Julia Yalçın Frank
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Ceramic artist Elif Uras fills the feminist pot with gold
In her latest exhibition, Uras explores the dynamic vitality of women’s labor throughout the ages since the prehistoric era, from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods, till today, where women have a longstanding history in the national workforce.
25 October 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Matt A. Hanson
reports
Kurdish artist Fatoş İrwen reflects on memory, resilience, and creating art in confinement
Featured in Arter’s group exhibition Under Pressure Above Water, İrwen draws from personal history, her time in prison, and her hometown Diyarbakır to create deeply symbolic works.
19 October 2025
Matt A. Hanson
Nural Sümbültepe
Interview
'Bringing change, step by step': Alireza Khatami on fatherhood and cycles of violence in 'The Things You Kill'
In his award-winning drama The Things You Kill, Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Alireza Khatami explores the inherited weight of fatherhood, masculinity, and political trauma through a narrative set in Turkey.
19 October 2025
Nural Sümbültepe
A T-shaped pillar with a human face discovered in Karahantepe
The carving of facial features on the stone found in Karahantepe in the Göbeklitepe region indicates that this is the first time humans were depicted directly.
7 October 2025
Seljuk-era tomb remains found at Ani archaeological site
An expert suggested the tomb may be one of the earliest examples of its architectural form in Anatolia.
24 September 2025
Rare publications on Ottoman Empire, Turkey made available online through Salt-IFEA collaboration
The project is designed to preserve historical and cultural documents from the Eastern Mediterranean and make them accessible.
24 September 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Interview
'No ban can stop Jafar Panahi'
We spoke with Amir Etminan, the editor of Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning new film "It Was Just an Accident," about the film, Iranian cinema, and censorship.
18 September 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak receives Jack Hirschman International Poetry Award
“I have been honored with many awards before, but this is the first time I have attended a ceremony in person," said the poet who spent 30 years in prison before his release in November.
26 June 2025
Who is Ferdi Tayfur?
One of the leading figures of arabesk music in Turkey and Yeşilçam film actor, Ferdi Tayfur passed away on 2 January 2025 in Antalya at the hospital where he was being treated.
3 January 2025
Tuğçe Yılmaz
reports
Solidarity call for Kardeş Türküler documentary
A press meeting was organized on 16 December 2024 within the scope of the solidarity campaign for the documentary directed by Çayan Demirel and Ayşe Çetinbaş, which focuses on Turkey’s multilingual collective memory.
24 December 2024
Tuğçe Yılmaz
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A place with a past hidden in shadow: Kurtuluş Greek Primary School
In her new project, documentary photographer Sema Kahraman Vurucu photographed the 138-year-old historical site Kurtuluş Greek Primary School.
14 June 2024
The second 'Turtle Trainer' is at the Isbank Museum of Painting and Sculpture
In the 1907 painting, which is one of two similar versions Osman Hamdi Bey painted, there are six turtles, unlike the previous year's painting, which featured five turtles.
14 March 2024
Film Critics Association awards nine of this year's awards to 'Over Dry Grasses'
The production that competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year won a total of nine awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
5 March 2024
Ferhat Tunç
writes
Music Freedom Day: Freedom for Nudem Durak!
Many renowned intellectuals, writers, and musicians worldwide have called for justice for Nudem Durak, who has been imprisoned for 9 years. I'd like to remind this call on World Music Freedom Day: Freedom for Kurdish musician Nudem Durak!
4 March 2024
Zagros film festival starts: 'The first online Kurdish film festival'
Fifteen productions will meet the audience during the festival, which will last until March 31.
1 March 2024
A new underground city discovered in Konya
They found grape seeds and sediments in the wine cellar of the discovered underground city in Konya, and hope to obtain an ancient seed from the found grape seeds stated the archaeologist and Excavation Director of Konya Museums, Hasan Uğuz.
25 January 2024
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Inaugural play for individuals with visual and hearing impairments at Atatürk Cultural Center
The "Accessible Theater" project, initiated to increase the participation of individuals with visual and hearing impairments in cultural and artistic activities, aims to provide an experience that transcends visual, auditory, and physical barriers.
9 January 2024
Art groups protest free access restriction at İstanbul Modern
The museum recently limited free access to four hours a week.
28 December 2023
Director Yılmaz Atadeniz passes away
Atadeniz adapted Hollywood science fiction and Western productions to Turkish cinema employing his unique methods in the earlier years of his directing career that he started in 1963.
13 December 2023
'Three Friends' to be showcased in Boğaziçi Film Festival
In the film all actors, including the main cast members consist of amateur actors and they have brought their characters to life without being given a script, within the framework of the "Cinema Acting Method for Children" developed by the director, Nursen Çetin Köreken.
8 December 2023
Producer and director Reber Dosky detained in Turkey for three days
Dutch-Kurdish journalist, producer, and director Reber Dosky was detained in Turkey for three days on allegations of being linked to "terrorist activities." Following his detention, he was transferred to the Deportation Center in Urfa.
14 November 2023
'The Instructive Journey of Anti-Kurdology' will be discussed in an event in İstanbul
"If you were a literate person living in İstanbul in the early 20th century, the concepts of Kurd and Kurdistan would be an ordinary part of your daily life." Academic Alişan Akpınar will delve into the history of the concepts of Kurd and Kurdistan in an event on Thursday, explaining the dimensions of the Kurdish issue as it stands today
14 November 2023
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