reports in CULTURE AND ARTS category

My journey into Turkish literature has been mostly satisfying, however, it does not exist in vacuum. Demographics, orientation and most significantly gender is skewed towards males, conscious or unconscious.

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.

"The main purpose was to bring people together. This design continued in later eras in the form of amphitheaters and odeons,” said Prof. Karul.

Authorities say the construction machinery is operating on a specially designed platform, not directly on Hagia Sophia’s surface.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Koma Amed, one of the most popular Kurdish music groups of the 1990s, has returned to the country after many years in exile.

It is a novel of longing—for the region, for its voice—woven out of magical realism and modern epic.

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.