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My wife and I visited Konya, May 2023. Never having been to Konya before, we decided to hire a guide for an all-day walking...

C. M. Kosemen is an artist and independent researcher born in Ankara, Turkey in 1984. He studied at Cornell University, Istanbul’s Sabancı University and...

Before coming to Istanbul I worked at restaurants in some capacity for over a decade. There are certain things I miss about working in...

So you're visiting or moving to Turkey and you want to bring your foreign mobile phone with you to happily use here. Great! Let's...

“Art is a lie that tells the truth.” This well-known phrase, attributed to Picasso in the early 1920s, takes up permanent residence in the...

In the heart of Nişantaşı, a brief stroll from the much-frequented City's Mall, there's a charming corner establishment for coffee connoisseurs known as Haha...

Looking for an affordable, easily explored, and architecture-filled weekend trip from Istanbul? Edirne is the place to be! While not as glamourous as other...

Rent increases are an unpleasant but inevitable part of adult life. However, as rent prices have spiked by an unprecedented degree over the past...

Istanbul is Turkey’s most populated city with about 16 million inhabitants. Given its size and population, a great deal of work has been put...

Proverbs are short but powerful expressions that aim to convey a message of wisdom, truth, and morality. They stem from collective experience and are...

Sami Hamid is a true international, born in Belgium and raised in Spain by an English mother and Iraqi father. After spending most of...

TIYYD is seeking a new Istanbul Site Manager to guide the operations and programs team to better serve our community in line with our...

Meltem Şahin is an illustrator, animator, and educator with an extensive array of projects in her portfolio. A Fulbright scholar, her exhibition "Negative Pleasure" late last...

Nizam walked quickly and nervously through the twilight. The fences and houses along Limon Paşa Boulevard were dark silhouettes beneath the rapidly aging sun....

What is a keto diet? What is a low-carb diet? A keto (ketogenic) diet is where you are restricted to consuming a maximum of (typically)...

It’s always a good idea to get out of Istanbul, to escape the traffic, the noise and endless grind of people and machines. My wife...

Different regions of Turkey are famous for different delicacies. While the Aegean coast is famous for its olive-oil based meze and alcoholic beverage Rakı, the Black Sea...

Büyük Ev Ablukada may not be a new name to those in the Turkish community who have been following the group for years, but...

Nestled in the green folds of the surrounding Maçka, against the backdrop of an Istanbul ripe for summer and buzzing with life in the...

"This is the story of a woman who manages to transform her life." Adapted from Christine Angot’s novel, An Impossible Love is about a love...

I was 50. Half a century. How was that even possible? Some years ago, one of my directors Zeynep, a lovely, cheerful Mediterranean woman had...

Summer is slowly coming to an end. This means a few things – beach days and vacations are becoming distant memories, all the foreign...

A passion, a legend, a factory of masterpieces: Kubrick The 38th Istanbul Film Festival celebrates the great filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in a section called Factory...

For best results, click to enlarge images. Surrounded by pine trees in the district of Üsküdar, Kuzguncuk feels like entering the perfect time capsule. One...