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Untold Stories, Unseen Lives
Photographer Çiğdem Yüksel's work aims to restore migrant women from Turkey to their rightful place in Dutch history.
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Jennifer Hattam
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An Enduring Quest for Remembrance and Reconciliation
The 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory in Istanbul sheds light on dark chapters in Turkey's history through the story of one remarkable man.
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Jennifer Hattam
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Protests, Culture, and Power
As people in Turkey take to the streets and call for boycotts, will the country's art world come under increased pressure to take a stand?
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Jennifer Hattam
Istanbul's Home for Cinema-Lovers
Inspired by an influential cinephile movement in Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s, the Sinematek Cinema House in Kadıköy is more than just a movie theater.
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Jennifer Hattam
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Remembering 6 February 2023
Exhibitions and projects in Istanbul, Bursa, and Antakya mark two-year anniversary of devastating earthquakes by using art as a tool for healing…
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Images of Urban Defiance
A look at the 14th International Bursa Photography Festival (Bursa FotoFest) ahead of its closing weekend
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Jennifer Hattam
Mutlu Yıllar / Happy New Year!
A brief look back at 2024
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Jennifer Hattam
A New Creative Flourishing at İMÇ
Cultural momentum is building again at modernist architectural landmark in Istanbul
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Mabrouk, Syrians
As Syrians celebrate the fall of the Assad regime, a small look at some of the art and culture that has been created and preserved during the long war…
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Mahalla Festival: Memento
The past is ever-present in a new cross-cultural exhibition in Istanbul
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Charity Stones and Sacred Money
A look back at some pandemic-era cultural-heritage reporting that's now featured in an award-winning BBC podcast.
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New Signs of Life in an Old Han
Over the past two years, artists have been finding a place to produce and create community in the century-old Tokatlıyan Han. Now they're inviting the…
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