Whenever I set my foot outside in the past 2 weeks, I felt i got swept away by the wild waves of people, especially in my neighborhood, Nişantaşı, a byword for urban chic. I ran out of all of the shortcuts to my house. For the fear of being labeled...
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The Syrian consulate is here in Nişantaşı. For a while I worked in a beautiful art-nouveau building, the Ralli, where the consulate is located. I was fresh out of the university daydreaming of travelling abroad; taking long trips around the world....
Turkish culture is a culture of recycling in a different sense than the North American or West European terms. It is more of a give-away culture, in a way a gift culture: unused items or clothes are regularly handed to the needy within one's circle or neighborhood....
Though the art of window displays is considered to be integral to the urban consumer culture to an inextricable extent, I thoroughly enjoy a well-crafted, visually appealing, arty window dressing of the retail world. It is a form of art on its own terms...
THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCEFinally 10 years after Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel Laureate started writing the story of Kemal and Füsun, the museum, which bears the same name as the book, opened. Right after its opening, a symposium focusing...
In the last decade, the street parties have become common in Istanbul, with Taksim and Nişantaşı being hot spots for art, music and design festivals. For the new year's celebrations, Nişantaşı, lavishly decorated with red lead soldiers reminiscence...
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