Joseph Flaherty travels to the remote border city of Kars in eastern Turkey to investigate the continued relevance and importance of Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed novel, Snow
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Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma’am
From the steppes to swanky Stamboul, Kornelia Binicewicz explores the role of women in various genres of Turkish music, with a particular focus on the sixties and seventies
New Horizons
Contemporary Istanbul’s Burcu Öztürkler gives a taste of things to come at the 2015 edition of the art fair featuring a special focus on Tehran
Cold Turkey
Turkish artist Nazif Topçuoğlu gives Joobin Bekhrad the skinny on his career, his detractors, and the trials of producing art in present-day Istanbul
State of the Art
Ahead of the third edition of ArtInternational Istanbul, Joobin Bekhrad talks to museum owner Sevda Elgiz and curator Başak Şenova about the fair, their projects, and the Turkish art scene
Embed in Egypt
A conversation with Emine Gözde Sevim about her new book of photographs documenting the turbulent days of the Egyptian Revolution in Cairo and its aftermath
Freak Out
Necla Rüzgar looks at the striking similarities between the vibrant world of Persian and Turkish miniatures and Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnival
Whirl’d Music
Songlines’ Editor-in-Chief, Simon Broughton, on the sights and sounds of the 11th edition of the Mystic Music Festival in Konya, Turkey, held in honour of Rumi
Young Turks
Joobin Bekhrad talks to Dyala Nusseibeh about the forthcoming sights and spectacles of the second edition of Turkey’s newest art fair, ArtInternational
Rebel Yell
Despite having been deemed subversive, and outlawed and threatened by the state, Turkey’s Kurdish dengbêj musical tradition is still going strong