Princess, painter, sometime chef: Lizzy Vartanian Collier visits London’s Tate Modern to take a look at a long-overdue retrospective of works by Turkey’s Fahrelnissa Zeid
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The Idiot
Iggy and Fyodor, meet your [Turkish] match! Joseph Flaherty examines Turkish-American writer Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot, as well as her other projects
Right Said Sait
Rakı days, rock and roll nights: Alex Dawe looks back on the life and times of the late Turkish writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık and what the Turkish literati had to say about him
Blame it on Mehmet
It ain’t easy being Mehmet Erdem. Before a concert in Washington, D.C., Ezgi Üstündağ sat down with the singer to talk about his journey from small-town boy to big-city rocker.
The Rakı Hologram Picture Show
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Who knows. What we do know for now is that we can’t get enough of Turkey’s Gaye Su Akyol and her latest album, Empire of Holograms.
Dancing in the Street
Ezgi Üstündağ talks to Aslı Doğan and Richard Laniepce of the Turkish group Kolektif Istanbul about their infectious blend of göbek atmak and making it big in the city
Madonna in a Fur Coat
What relevance does a novel written over 70 years ago by a mysteriously murdered author have to contemporary Turkey? Lydia Beardmore takes a look at Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat.
An Ancient Melancholy
Ezgi Üstündağ explores the history of Ladino culture and music in Turkey, with a particular focus on the careers of musicians Sami Levi and the Janet-Jak Esim Ensemble
Istanbul - Passion, Joy, Fury
Charlie Clarkson looks back on a major group exhibition of artists at the MAXXI in Rome, which addressed a slew of issues concerning present-day Istanbul and Turkey as a whole
Fables for Adults
Miniature paintings, big trouble, not a damn given - Joseph Flaherty travels to Istanbul to visit the studio of the artist formerly known as Canan Şenol