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CULTURE AND ARTS
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Artist Condemn Censor on Gezi Park Resistance
Turkey’s prominent artists released a joint statement yesterday that condemned mainstream media censor on Gezi resistance and demanded objective coverage.
4 June 2013
Yüce Yöney
3rd Protest Kiss in Eurovision
Turkey's state television TRT refused to broadcast the 58th Eurovision Song Contest, saying that it protested the winner selection system.
20 May 2013
Emek Movie Theatre Protestors Face Prosecution
Advocate Efkan Bolaç told bianet that an Istanbul prosecutor has issued a file against 4 protestors who rallied against the demolition of historical Emek Movie Theatre early this month, charging them with violation of demonstration law and assault to law enforcement officials.
20 April 2013
Yüce Yöney
Eco, Pamuk Meet Up For Literature
Authors Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk came together around "A Dialogue on Facts, Fiction and History" yesterday, a convivial chat organized by Boğaziçi University.
10 April 2013
Elif Cansu Akoğuz
Movie Theater Protestors Intervened By Gas Bombs
On Sunday, while protesting against the demolition of historical Emek Movie Theater in downtown Istanbul, a massive group of demonstrators has been intervened by police with gas bombs and cannoned water.
8 April 2013
Beyza Kural
Film Festival With Movie Theater Invasion
A group of activists, musicians and cinephiles invaded Istanbul's historical Emek Movie Theater on Sunday afternoon, launching an alternative opening ceremony for the ongoing Istanbul Film Festival.
1 April 2013
Haluk Kalafat
Musicians Stand Behind Niyazi Koyuncu's Newroz Performance
Local musicians from Northern Turkey released a statement today, protesting the criticism against Niyazi Koyuncu who had a concert performance at Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır province on March 21.
25 March 2013
Urban Renewal Activists Protest at Istanbul Biennial
A group of college students, artists, local residents and activists protested a session in Istanbul's 13th Biennial yesterday, saying that certain organization funders supported Istanbul's controversial urban renewal projects.
25 March 2013
bianet Celebrates Mother Tongue Day With Songs
bianet's International Mother Tongue Day 2013: Languages remain on earth as long as people expressed them through folk chants and songs.
21 February 2013
Haluk Kalafat
Turkish Government to Restore Santa Claus' Relics
Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay said the Turkish government might launch an official process to demand Italy to bring the relic of St. Nicolas, who is known as Santa Claus.
28 December 2012
Christmas Carols Alleviate Istanbul Greeks' Fears
Istanbul's Greeks celebrated Christmas with their traditional "kalanda" activity where Zoğrafyon Greek High School student chanted Christmas carols on Istiklal Avenue.
25 December 2012
Beyza Kural
Locals Rally Against Construction in Cappadocia
The construction of two hotels in Turkey's historical Cappadocia have been suspended after massive protests from local residents who said the city's culture preservation council allowed many other controversial projects.
12 December 2012
Nilay Vardar
Kurdish Language Panel Emphasizes on Assimilation Politics
In Yüksekova district, a panel organized by a Kurdish language association on Monday undermined the liaison between Kurdish language and history, saying that Kurdish people kept their language despite assimilation politics.
11 December 2012
Agri Province Welcomes Its First Movie Theater
A new movie theater has been established in Agri, one of the seven remaining provinces without a public film screening venue.
28 November 2012
Court Unjustly Bans Cegerxwîn Name
Kayapınar City Mayor assistant Servet Yılmaz and Tüm-Bel Sen Diyarbakır Branch President Medeni Apkaya spoke to bianet on the court decision to ban the names of Cegerxwîn Youth and Cultural Centre and 19 parks in the district.
25 July 2012
Samet Akten
"We Do Not Watch This Movie"
Movie lovers came together for Emek Movie Theater on April 15, 2012. They protested against the Emek Movie Theater project of Kamer Construction Company. They shouted "We do not watch this movie" and tore their tickets.
17 April 2012
Işıl Cinmen
Maybe You'd Understand Someday
I would like Turkish language to understand how genuinely beautiful, colorful and really meaningful is Bianet's opening page on February 21, 2012.
21 February 2012
Işıl Cinmen
Short Film World in Istanbul
The Istanbul International Short Film Festival started on 23 November. 156 productions from various countries are being shown at the 23rd festival.
24 November 2011
Yüce Yöney
FareeQ el Atrash: Lebanese Hip-Hop Without Stonewalling
A hardly appropriate tribute to the great singer Farid el Atrash alias FareeQ el Atrash. The collective started rapping polished and realistic texts in Arabic three years ago.
8 June 2011
Diala Gemayel
The Artist, The Teacher and The Curator
When I was a kid, I'd tell my mother that I wanted to become an artist. I don't think she took me seriously back then, because this didn't seem like a realistic career (it still doesn't). I loved drawing a lot as a kid, then as a teenager I realised that I could express my inner 'self' in words too.
8 June 2011
Gilbert Calleja
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The New “Brothers of Italy”
Alin, Masha and Nader live in the outskirts of Rome. They have different stories, aspirations, fears and the usual difficulty of being adolescents of foreign origin in a country that refuses its cultural diversity. Claudio Giovannesi deals with all this in his new documentary.
17 May 2011
Frederica Araco
Interculturalism In Spain
In Spain integration happens through music. In an intercultural society, cultural barriers are broken down. This is the message a punk band from Madrid called Ska P is trying to spread through countless concerts throughout Europe and Latin America.
17 May 2011
Cristina Artoni
Kurdish Town of Cizre Becomes Bilingual
The departments in the southeast Cizre municipality building, controlled by the pro-Kurdish BDP are titled in both Turkish and Kurdish. Inspite that Turkey officially recognizes only the Turkish language locals mother tongue Kurdish, will be openly used in public institutions. says deputy mayor Gölçe.
29 December 2010
Thousands in Diyarbakir Commemorate Aram Tigran
Thousands of people in Diyarbakir commemorated world-famous Armenian musician Aram Tigran on his first death anniversary in a concert at the Batikent Square.
11 August 2010
Really, What Happened In '68? Rebellion, Revolution, Struggle...
Nadire Mater looks back in her latest book where she talks to 21 of the leading figures who took to the streets that year in Turkey. The book places the 68 movement in context -both locally and globally- while revealing the different colors of the youth rebellion.
3 July 2009
Istanbul: Snow Has Taken Over
For the last three days, it has been snowing in Istanbul. Although the snow has brought chaos to the city, it has also added beauty.
19 February 2008
Hüseyin Özdemir
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Activists Complain Against Racist Song
The prosecution has reacted to controversy over a song praising Hrant Dink's murder suspects and started an investigation. Human rights groups are filing a suit additionally.
17 September 2007
Erol Önderoğlu
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