Columns & Conversation

“If you love your country, you become a criminal,” celebrated and controversial Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei said during an artist talk when his...

By all accounts, this year's Electric Playground, from Charm Music Turkey and Epifoni, was a huge success. Featuring the talents of headliners Marshmello and...

It’s that time of the year again when the countdown to the Istanbul Jazz Festival begins and our anticipation heightens as the promised day...

Electronica Festival has come a long way since their debut entry at Parkorman in the now distant summer of 2004. Featuring headliners Planet Funk,...

Gamze Saymaz, born in 1994, is a poet based in Istanbul. She studied English Language and Literature as well as Psychology while participating as...

My dog, Barış loves my Pilates lessons. He races into the studio and demands a bowl of water (he likes to keep hydrated as...

Editor's Note: Senem Selimi will host a special Spring Passion party this Friday 11 May at Tora Nisantaşı. More details can be found via...

If there’s one physical thing that travelers seek to bring or find along the journey, aside from books, it is board games. Even more...

I have been a regular performer and audience member at Spoken Word since coming to Istanbul four years ago. At the time, the founder,...

On the way to work the other morning, the taxi driver, noticing I was a yabancı, asked the usual, inevitable question. “America,” I answered. “Amerika?” the driver...

Since I moved to Izmir for work, my visits to Istanbul have become more dedicated, more concentrated. Now, every time I return I feel...

Carla Lemgruber traveled quite a distance from Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of love so that she could set roots here in Istanbul. A...

The most recent iteration of the Designer-in-Residence program at ATÖLYE has seen their Prototyping Lab take on new life, where resident Eli Bensusan can...

From the organizer: We are delighted to invite you to the launch of Connect for Creativity on Tuesday 7 May, 19.00 at ATÖLYE. Connect for Creativity...

ATÖLYE Dubai continues with its guest series Insight Out, featuring creative seekers whose inward explorations have positively impacted the work they put out into the...

For those unfamiliar, this isn’t the Mount Nemrut of stone headed statue fame in the province of Adıyaman. I’m talking about the caldera-topped Nemrut...

Saturday, 22 September In the morning, early, before anyone was stirring in Çardak, I walked out to the main road and began that day’s walk...

Hidden within an olive grove, Hecate sanctuary in Lagina could pass as a secret garden, one filled with a mystical air and esoteric treasures....

Article and photos by Louis Herman My trip to Georgia (known locally as Sakartvelo) this January started with a quick flight to Trabzon from Istanbul,...

Artifacts have been found in Istanbul (previously home to some of the world's largest empires, the city has also been known as Byzantion, Nea...

Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists: For the past several years, I have been coming across this ensemble again and again. They've become regulars...

The Muhsin Ertuğrul Theater Hall is a ten-minute walk from my place. So, a venture there is normally no big deal, but a nice...

Let me set the scene: it's a summer night in 2000 and I'm inside my first car. I approach a traffic light while listening...

The Minipax Festival was besieged by rain storms for a second year in a row, much to the chagrin of most of the attendees....