Saffron There has been a small revival of saffron farming in Safranbolu, which took its name from the flower (and the town’s ...

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We were sad to learn of the death of one of the great archaeologists of the 20th century. James Mellaart’s discoveries at Çatalhüyük in the 1950s and early 1960s fundamentally altered our ...

Cornucopia’s choice. Contributors: John Shakespeare Dyson, Alexandra de Cramer and Monica Fritz ...

Well before the pandemic imposed a night-time curfew on Turkish streets (writes Andrew Finkel), there were many who went voluntarily into lockdown certain evenings of the week to watch their favourite ...

Tim Kent, an artist deeply rooted in art history, extends the boundaries of canvas with his imagery. His works combine the familiar with the uncanny, blurring the lines between dream and reality, and ...

Anatolian revelations: from Ankara’s sleekest animals to medieval Mardin, a city on the faultline of history, and Latmos, the Aegean’s forgotten Holy Mountain… plus the special secret of Turkish ice ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Ottoman statesman Âli Pasha, who was five times sadrazam, or grand vizier, and seven times foreign minister of Turkey, was one of Europe’s most famous statesmen. The ...

First, the Bozok Quartet, consisting of Tayfun Bozok (1st violin), Derya Bozok (2nd violin), Evren Bilgenoğlu (viola) and Hayreddin Hoxha (cello), will accompany clarinettist Ayşegül Kirmanoğlu in ...

Vassilis Colonas finished his graduate studies in Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and postgraduate studies in Paris in the fields of Art History, Museology and Conservation of ...

He was an Italian with a powerful affinity for the historic buildings of Ottoman Istanbul. But the architect Raimondo D’Aronco was destined to leave his own very stylish stamp on the city. Paolo ...

Her life is the stuff of fairy tales. Omar Khalidi tells the story of the princess who captivated Cecil Beaton The Caliph, Amir al-Muminin, Successor to the Prophet Muhammad, Commander of the Faithful ...