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With its own attraction and magic this game seems to appear everywhere, may it be in the çay evi or at home, tavla is...

It took me about an hour of walking to reach Erbeyli. In most of the towns I had passed, the mosque was within 200-500...

The Away Days don’t sound like your average Istanbul band, but then again, how does an “average Istanbul band” even sound? With a city...

We all have those people who drift in and out of our lives, and years later, we find ourselves musing about them, wondering whatever...

Connect for Creativity’s second networking conference will take place in Kayseri, Turkey between 5 to 6 December 2019 at Abdullah Gül University. The conference will...

#What: St. Patrick's Istanbul Party #When: Sunday 19 March #Where: Beat #Address: Yeşilçam Sk. no:9/A, 34435 Beyoğlu #Doors open: 22:00 #Ticket Status: Discounted Early Bird Tickets Available #Note: 18+ only. Gender...

A feeling that was about to disappear in the chaos of life suddenly hit me so hard that I had to sit down and...

Turks have always admired and emphasized oral traditions in poems, sagas and rhymes throughout their history. Babies grow up with lullabies, children play alongside...

In my previous article, I wrote about the more difficult side of navigating Turkish family dynamics as a foreign partner. The constant phone calls,...

Friday, 7 September I stopped that day at Horsunlu, a small village at the eastern edge of the Menderes River valley. The river valley at that...

We're delighted to announce that long-time contributor James Tressler has recently released another collection of insightful short stories in "Inside Voices", available for purchase via...

Walk through the doors of Bakıroğlu Gurme and you’re met by a visual feast. Blocks of bright fruit and vegetables, counters chock full of...

In our previous piece we discussed choosing your obstetrician - this was the most difficult part. Now it is time for you to relax...

In all facets of daily, human life, the divide between what is expressed to others and what is in truth thought in one’s own,...

It was bound to happen sooner or later. But it happened much sooner than the citizens of Istanbul were ready for. And it happened in...

Salon IKSV are set to host the one of the most intriguing figures in the contemporary avant-pop scene in Lana Lubany on Friday 22...

“Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook” ― Syrian poet, Nizar Qabbani To the general public, Syria has become...

One might be surprised to learn an unassuming turn off Istiklal, down an unusually silent path featuring several slumbering cats, and proceeding through an...

Every great city has its own soundtrack, or at least, deserves one. If it doesn’t, you should think about moving somewhere else. I think of...

The 47th Istanbul Music Festival, organized by IKSV, has come to an end (and now starts the Jazz Festival). This year, the festival really...

I have never really been a "film guy" in the traditional sense, but growing up in a small town where there wasn’t much else...

With the start of the holy month of Ramazan this past week,  many Turks have been fasting and praying. It’s not easy, especially  in...

Juggling an excess of professional responsibility while still finding the time for your own creative pursuits can be especially daunting. By any measure, Zeynep Şen has taken...

EU-Turkey funded Connect for Creativity announces its first international conference Creative Backlash! Connect for Creativity aims to form a network of creative hubs across Europe...