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...
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"Farewell to Istanbul" by the great Turkish cartoonist, Semih Balcıoğlu (1928-2006) is a collection of cartoons that bids farewell to an Istanbul that is long gone. As a child, I remember following him in one of the mainstream newspapers. The older...
The photo exhibition at the Pera Museum, "From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul" gave me moments of awe and inspiration to keep on working on the city. The selection of photos from various collections reveals the beauty of the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus...