Starting on October 1, the Slemani Film Festival will show 120 films from 57 countries. Adopting the “Earth Cancer” as its theme to raise environmental and ecological awareness, the festival will predominantly feature films of Kurdish directors from Turkey.

Two human skeletons dating back to approximately 3,000 B.C. have been unearthed during the excavations in Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir.

Publishers demanded a record 55,121,271 banderols in July with a 62 percent increase from the previous month.

Opening for visitors after three-year restoration work, the Sümela Monastery was visited by 50 thousand tourists in June. Officials say their target is 500 thousand for this year.

After it has been revealed that the word “Kurdistan” was censored in the Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho’s book Eleven Minutes, the Can Publishing House has announced that the book will be pulled off the shelves.

Kawa Nemir has translated Tosca opera by Giacomo Puccini into Kurdish and director Celil Toksöz has adapted it for the stage. The premiere of the theater play will be held in Amsterdam City Theater on October 25, 2019.

Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Aksoy has stated, “The sensitivity of our nation is our sensitivity” and announced that the concert program featuring singer Sıla Gençoğlu will be revised.

Known for the songs that she sings in Zazaki, musician Nadia Visser from the Netherlands says that she is recording an album in Kurdish. Her new album is expected to come out in early 2020. Visser has answered the questions of bianet.

As the Ilısu Dam reservoir is about to be filled and engulf the ancient city of Hasankeyf, Ercan Ayboğa from the Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive has spoken to bianet and suggested holding a referendum: “It is not a dream to save Hasankeyf.”

Organized in Russia’s capital city of Moscow for the last 25 years to commemorate the late poet, Nazım Hikmet events have started with the opening of Caricatures of Nazım Hikmet exhibition in the 56th year of poet's death.

Musician Ferhat Tunç has prepared a music video for his song “Come and Find me Mother in June” in the 6th year of Gezi resistance. Tunç has stated that he wants to refresh the memories with this video clip.

According to the figures shared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), the number of shows performed in opera and ballet halls across Turkey in 2017-2018 was 648, which marks a 5.3-percent decrease in comparison with the previous season.

Amasya Municipality has imposed a de facto ban on the staging of “Letters to Taranta-Babu” theater play by Nâzım Hikmet on the ground that it was ‘political.’ Actor Cansu Fırıncı has spoken to bianet about the prevention of the municipality.

The awards of 38th İstanbul Film Festival have been granted. While the Golden Tulip in International Competition has been awarded to "The House of Hummingbird” by Bora Kim, “A Tale of Three Sisters” by Emin Alper has won the award in national competition.

On the occasion of March 27 World Theater Day, theater artists have marched through the streets of Kadıköy in İstanbul, chanting the slogan “Stages are ours, streets are ours.” Artists have celebrated their day with concerts.

Chalak Events will hold “Kurdish Expression Festival” with Acmos, Retrò Scenayê, Comitato Salvagente and Paris Kurdish Institute in Turin, Italy on April 10-13. Several artists, academics and literary figures will introduce Kurdish culture for four days.

Rapper XEM has just released his album Biyan. We have spoken to XEM about Kurdish and rap music.

District Governorship of Kadıköy has imposed a restriction on the World Theater Day March organized by Kadıköy Theaters Platform and Municipality of Kadıköy. Speaking to bianet, actor Fırıncı said, “We celebrated it even during State of Emergency."

"Happy Newroz" banner has been confiscated in Urfa, first Newroz celebrations in Şırnak has been held after three years, the "Newroz train" has been canceled in Diyarbakır. Here are the highlights from the Newroz celebrations...

“Visions of the Holocaust” exhibition has opened at the Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chief Rabbi Haleva and Consul General of Germany Reiffenstuel underlined the importance of facing the past.