Issos-Epiphaneia, situated in Cilicia Pedias, is a historically rich city in the Erzin district of Hatay, with a strategic location facilitating trade between Anatolia and Syria-Mesopotamia. Inhabited ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursRobert Chenciner (1945–2021) Andrew Finkel pays tribute to the mesmerising Robert Chenciner, a maverick scholar and fond friend, who has died in London By Andrew ...

Descending angels and croaking frogs Early Glass, Mozart's tribute to Haydn, Reich's Jacob's Ladder: Borusan Quartet and Synergy Vocals in the Süreyya Opera House By John Shakespeare Dyson | August 3, ...

Peter Sarik and his fellow-musicians are to perform jazz arrangements of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók and Ludwig van Beethoven. This popular ensemble performs in Istanbul every year.

Don McCullin and his wife, Catherine Fairweather, take in the dramtic view at dawn as our new travelling companion and local Hüseyin Bey nonchalantly strolls, feeling very much at home on the fire ...

A friend once confessed the frustration of setting a story in Istanbul, a city where not even the past stands still. The place you think you should start is never the place you actually start – and ...

After a three-year pause, Istanbul Modern’s ‘Museum Talks’ series continues this month with Italy. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, will ...

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

The Italian-Slovenian pianist Alexander Gadjiev, renowned for his ‘improvisatory instincts’, plays Mussorgsky’s 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition while Turkish dancer Yaman Okur, a world-champion ...

Intense and sustained research focussed on a well-defined, circumscribed region, across several decades and through numerous archaeological and palaeoenvironmental projects has created a uniquely rich ...

Readers of Cornucopia might think they need no introduction to the work of Monica Fritz. For the last decade she has been photographer at large for this magazine, returning from assignments with sharp ...

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...