The Tulip Trap
from NYT > Turkey by By ANDREW FINKEL
While Istanbul celebrates its favorite flower, it is destroying its few remaining natural habitats.
Turkish PM resents project ?ruining? Istanbul?s silhouette
from Hurriyet Daily News
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again excoriated developers..
Art Sold at Controversial Istanbul Auction Comes Partially to Light
from NYT > Turkey by By SUSANNE FOWLER
When dozens of valuable works by Turkish modern and contemporary artists that had been part of a university museum?s collection were about to be sold at auction earlier this year, an uproar ensued.
Istanbul Jazz Festival celebrates its 20th year
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Istanbul Jazz Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV)..
Between Orient and Occident
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Galata Bridge is one of the more obvious metaphors for all those clichéd oppositions that Istanbul is famously caught between: Occident and Orient; east and west.
Despite threats, Istanbul Jews mark Independence
ISTANBUL ? In the Etz Hachaim synagogue in Istanbul’s riverfront Ortaköy neighborhood onMonday, the cantor raised his voice to chant a prayer for Israel’s fallen soldiers. The congregation, separated from the shopping district outside their place of
The Best Of Istanbul In 72 Hours
Huffington Post
A friend once told me that Istanbul is such a vast, vibrant and multilayered city that it would take years to truly know it, and he was right. Once at the heart of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, it’s one of the world’s most historically rich
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