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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 ...

Kütahya pottery lived in the shadow of the mighty Iznik, but it outlived its rival thanks to its verve and versatility, as a new book from the Sadberk Hanım Museum reveals. By Melanie Gibson The ...

The districts that form the entrance to the old European quarters is still a hive of metal workers and light shops, docks and brothels, schools and churches, banks and tax offices, with nightclubs ...

This exhibition tells the story of Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, one of the most remarkable figures of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republic, through his photgraphy, particularly images captured in the ...

This quiet Anatolian backwater between Seyitgazi and Afyon belies its past. In Cornucopia 39 David Barchard evokes the sense of timelesssness that hangs over the idyllic green Phrygian Highlands.

Bahçesaray – literally Garden Palace in Turkish – is spelt in various ways including Bağçasaray, or more commonly Bakhchisaray (Ukranian ...

Salt Beyoğlu will host the ‘In the Realm of Three Inland Seas’ exhibition, featuring the extensive work of Handan Börüteçene, a dedicated artist focusing on archaeology, history, and nature for over ...

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

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 ...

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 ...