Vintage Constantinople postcards are somehow still popular in Istanbul after more than a hundred years they were first printed. It was Max Fruchtermann, an Austria-Hungarian entrepreneur, who opened a shop in Pera and popularized the picture postcards...
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Places we call home. Inside out. Outside in. As I watch many buildings in my neighborhood, as in many other neighborhoods across the city, being pulled down only to be replaced by ugly wannabe modern buildings, the loss of building name signs,...
It was one of those cold, overcasted spring days when we met up at the kahve of Yedikule train station. Kahve is the place where local men of the neighborhood gather to spend the day in idle chat or playing cards. You wouldn't miss it; there...
Uluç Özcü is one of my favorite photographers. A ginger sweet-heart. Passionate as hell about the Gezi, photography and music. He whines so sweetly over what he cares for. Having born on the same land, we speak the same language of frustration,...
Istanbul has been quite tense for the past few weeks. you know why; the elections. In case you are asking my opinion, my only explanation for the ruling party to sweep overwhelmingly 45% of the votes is soul pollution. Considering the corruption we are mired...
We Istanbullites do not know much about the history of our home city. I am ashamed to say history is so much in the air that we are one of the spoilt kids of the Mediterranean. The excavations of the past decade in the historical peninsula have made...
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...
When I first came across The Women's Museum Istanbul online last year, I got so excited that I set the date to visit the museum the next day! Unfortunately, it turned out that it did not have a venue yet. Never mind in a world, where established concepts...
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