I thought a post on melancholy would fit well into the autumn feel that is slowly creeping into our lives. In the psyche of the western readers who found their way into the city through Pamuk's memoirs or in the lives of many of my fellow Istanbullites,...
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Starting from the late 19th century, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, along with the Austria-Hungarian empire, did give way to a new world order around the Mediterranean while sweeping millions of people off the lands they knew as home. The borders are still...
I have a weak spot for anything art-nouveau. Could it be because a neighborhood with art nouveau houses was a default setting for me since I was born? We do not have V. Horta or A. Mucha here, but we do have Raimondo D'aronco of Italian origin,...
Friends living in Yeşilköy take me out for a lovely walk in the neighborhood. A mellow sunday well-spent spotting wooden art-nouveau houses, visiting a number of churches, discovering the tomb of maltese painter Amedeo Preziosi, famous for his watercolor...
In the name of regeneration, the old historic neighborhood of Istanbul, Tarlabaşı, will be confined to the memories of Istanbullites very soon. It used to be inhabited mostly by the Greeks since the mid 1800s and by migrants from Anatolia since the 1960s....
It is true that we Istanbullites complain about lack of green spaces but see how nature takes over?