Supporting private theater groups having financial difficulties due to pandemic, the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İMM) City Theaters will host “Bêrû”, a theater play in Kurdish by the Teatra Jiyana Nû theater group, in October.

Speaking to Mezopotamya Agency, Batman Municipality sources have said that the area where the movie house named after late Kurdish director Güney was located will be a part of the nearby park and a decorative pool will be constructed there.

All films, including past award winners, will be available online during the festival.

With a public art project displayed on two 20-meter walls on one of the busiest streets along the Bosphorus in İstanbul, artist Ali Cabbar raises concerns over the destruction of wildlife through human agency.

The municipality has brought the portrait made by Gentile Bellini in 1480 to İstanbul after purchasing it in late July.

While the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has filed a criminal complaint about the works undertaken in Galata Tower with hammer drills without an approved restoration project, the demolished wall has been apparently built again.

Minister of Culture and Tourism Aksoy has made a statement about the “restoration” works undertaken in İstanbul’s iconic Galata Tower. He has denied the allegations that “the walls of the tower were demolished” with hammer drills.

Speaking to bianet, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s Head of Cultural Assets Department Mahir Polat has noted that the demolition takes place in the interior wall where the Ottoman signature is located: “It is not restoration, it is demolition.”

Nine people were detained in Istanbul during police raids in two locations.

Dursunoğlu, the most renowned drag queen of the country, died on July 17 at the age of 88.

The renowned novelist died at 91 yesterday.

"The project seeks to bring together a select group of artists whose practices make way for the multiplicity and fluidity of Armenia and Turkey's many conditions, positions and identities," says Anadolu Kültür.

Compiling the work of artist Cewad Merwanî on Radio Yerevan’s archive of Kurdish songs, the recently published four-volume book groups the songs in two categories: Rhythmic Songs and Free Songs.

According to the Cinema and Theater Statistics shared by the TurkStat for 2019, the cinema audience in Turkey decreased by 12.8 percent in a year while theater audience increased by 0.7 percent and reached almost 8 million people.

Behind bars for 26 years, writer and illustrator Ahmet Bilge draws for bianet. In his last letter, he has sent his drawings about the coronavirus outbreak, attaching the note, “Everyone is a bit of a prisoner these days…”

Spending most of his life behind bars or in exile and being stripped of citizenship, Nazım Hikmet died in Moscow in 1963.

İstanbul Modern's online exhibition will be open until November 15.

Findings of scientific analysis on six paintings of the artist are presented in the online exhibition.

Behind bars for 26 years, writer and illustrator Ahmet Bilge draws for bianet.

People unlikely to meet in crowded areas at least this year, says the head of the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.