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CULTURE AND ARTS
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'Pasolini's Cappadocia' exhibition opens in İstanbul's Kadıköy
The famous director's 100th anniversary is being celebrated with various events.
24 May 2022
Kurdish theater play, concert banned
A theater play in Kurdish and a concert of two musicians singing in Turkish and Kurdish have been banned.
17 May 2022
'Rojbash': Movie tells the 25-year story of a banned Kurdish play
Director Özkan Küçük brought the story of the Kurdish actors who gathered again 25 years later to the silver screen.
4 April 2022
Tens of thousands gather for Newroz in Diyarbakır
The long queues in front of the search points could not hinder the folk dances in Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır’s Bağlar. The streets of the Kurdish-majority province were filled with thousands heading for the celebration site.
21 March 2022
Umut Ali Adalı
Newroz celebrated throughout Turkey
Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated the feast in many provinces throughout the country.
21 March 2022
'Bijî Newroz': People flock to Yenikapı Square in İstanbul
Despite the freezing cold in Istanbul, more than half a million citizens filled the Newroz area with their national clothes. The slogans of "Biji Newroz" and "Biji Serok Apo" were chanted.
20 March 2022
Ferid Demirel
2nd İstanbul Kurdish Film Festival begins
Made in 1933, “Kurdên Êzidî” (Êzidî Kurds) will be screened for the first time as part of the 2nd İstanbul Kurdish Film Festival, which will be held on March 24-29, 2022.
4 March 2022
Ferid Demirel
Jazz musician Muvaffak 'Maffy' Falay passes away at 92
Falay joined the Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band in 1970 and fused traditional Turkish music to jazz with his own band in the1980s.
22 February 2022
LaWje to hold its first concert in İstanbul since the pandemic
LaWje will give its first major concert in İstanbul in 3 years since the pandemic and will perform with a large cast. The concert will take place on February 18 at 8 pm at Beşiktaş Suleyman Seba Cultural Center.
16 February 2022
'May the year 2022 be the Year of Zerzevan'
Diyarbakır Promotion, Culture and Solidarity Foundation (DİTAV) Chair Erhan Akalınlar invites everyone to the Zerzevan Castle, which is on the UNESCO’s Tentative List of World Heritage Sites.
20 January 2022
'We are finally alive': Poetry books by three prisoners
While the government's policies that cause deaths in prisons continue, prisoners continue to write, draw and produce as well, expressing that being confined does not prevent ideas.
17 January 2022
Ferid Demirel
Film Critics Association names ‘The Father’ the best foreign film of 2021
Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, “The Father” has been named the best foreign film of 2021 by the Film Critics Association (SİYAD) in Turkey.
10 January 2022
'The entire country is a crime scene'
The exhibition titled "Crime Scene" focuses on rights violations in the 20 years of the AKP's rule.
20 December 2021
Melis Yıldırım
The Little Prince now speaks Laz, Circassian and Kurdish
As part of the “Little Prince in Anatolian Languages” project, the world-renowned book is now available as an audiobook in Laz, Adyghe (Circassian) and Kurdish (Kurmanji). The audiobook can be accessed free of charge.
27 October 2021
Roman vineyard mosaic to be showcased in southern Turkey
The mosaic was carefully preserved and thought to belong to the late Roman period, which corresponds to the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
22 October 2021
Kurdish Language Platform: If there is to be equality, it must first be in language
Şerefxan Cizîrî, the Spokesperson for the Kurdish Language Platform, has said, “We need to bring the problems about language to the agenda of politics. Mother language must be guaranteed by the Constitution.”
19 October 2021
Can Candan’s ‘Walls’ to be screened in Germany on the 31st anniversary of reunification
For his film “Duvarlar – Mauern – Walls”, documentary filmmaker and academic Can Candan asked Berliners from Turkey about the effects of Germany's reunification on their daily lives. The documentary will now be screened again in the country after 21 years.
2 October 2021
Burhan Sönmez elected the new President of PEN International
“I thank my fellow PEN members for entrusting me with PEN’s future - an honour and a responsibility that I recognise and will keep in my mind and heart as I fill the role of President of our noble organisation,” says novelist Sönmez in his acceptance speech.
24 September 2021
‘Anatolian Leopard’ granted FIPRESCI Prize at Toronto Film Festival
Directed by Emre Kayış, the movie “Anatolian Leopard” will also compete at the 58th Antalya Golden Orange Awards on October 2-9, 2021.
20 September 2021
Selection of short films from Accessible Film Festival: Absurd
To be held for the ninth time on October 11-17, 2021, the Accessible Film Festival will offer a selection of short films under the title of “Absurd”, featuring the comedy of surreal situations and asynchronous behavior with the ordinary flow of life.
14 September 2021
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Composer Mikis Theodorakis dies at 96: 'I have lost a great friend in life and arts'
Musician Zülfü Livaneli, who founded the Turkish-Greek Friendship Association with Theodorakis in 1986, reflects on the passing away of "Zorba the Greek."
2 September 2021
Ayşegül Özbek
WOMEX 21 Artist Award granted to Aynur Doğan
The Worldwide Music Expo (WOMEX) has granted this year’s Artist Award to musician Aynur Doğan, who “preserves the Kurdish and Alevi songs against those that would have them silenced.”
30 August 2021
Contemporary artist Gülsün Karamustafa receives Roswitha Haftmann Prize
The Board of Switzerland-based Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has decided to award the Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2021 to artist Gülsün Karamustafa, “whose work spans multiple genres including painting, installation, video and performance.”
11 August 2021
Ferit Karahan granted Best Director Award in Palić European Film Festival
Karahan's "Brother's Keeper" has received another award.
27 July 2021
Arslantepe Mound in Malatya now on UNESCO World Heritage List
With the addition of the 8,000-year-old Arslantepe Mound in Malatya, the number of sites from Turkey in the UNESCO’s list has grown to 19.
27 July 2021
‘Traditional Kurdish Women’s Clothes’ book comes out
Nevin Reşan Güngör’s book “Traditional Kurdish Women’s Clothes” has been published in Turkish, Kurdish and English by Nûbihar Publishing.
28 June 2021
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Why would an author who is a Kurdish native speaker write in Turkish?
Writing his recent poetry book in Turkish, Lal Laleş, one of the most talented, prolific and creative Kurdish literary intellectuals in Turkey, demonstrates "the feeling of being attached to and torn between two languages that lie at his heart".
15 May 2021
Özlem Belçim Galip
‘European Museum of the Year Awards’ to Troy and Odunpazarı
“The European Museum of the Year Awards” are granted by the European Museum Forum (EMF).
7 May 2021
Musicians sell their instruments, return to their hometowns
For more than a year, stages have been closed and concerts have not been held. Five different musicians who are having a hard time spoke to bianet about how they are trying to survive.
5 May 2021
Dara Demiralp
All musical works of Aram Tigran to be released again
Sirvart Melikyan, the wife of Aram Tigran, who was a prominent musician singing in Kurdish, has signed a copyright agreement with the German-Kurdish Cultural Institute. All works of the late musician will be now released again.
13 April 2021
Ferid Demirel
Book describing Diyarbakır's language as 'Baku Turkish' removed from publication
The book written for children refers to the language spoken in the Kurdish-majority city as "Baku Turkish."
30 March 2021
Ministry transfers more than 1,000 historic properties to defunct Ottoman-era foundations
Gezi Park was only one of 1,014 properties that were handed over to fused foundations, the General Directorate of Foundations explained.
23 March 2021
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