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“The confusion you see in the book is the confusion in Turkey,” Elif Şafak told Hürriyet in an interview. “This book is what I have gathered in me throughout the years, our internal paradoxes, our breaking points… Turkey is a country of unrealized potentials. How we are wasting our country, our people!”

Various statues have been removed in Turkey in the last year on claims of being obscene. Two months ago, the AKP municipality in Ordu removed some female statues, while were also winners of an international competition, saying they “conflicted with public morals.”

For Caroline David, the director of the French Institute in İzmir, the future of textiles may be just as interesting as and definitely more diverse than the past and present. David, a Parisian who spent many years in Lille, in the north of France, has first-hand experienced on how the textile sector has been badly […]

As you enter the “Josephine’s Fragments” exhibition at the Erimtan Museum near Ankara’s citadel, your eyes are immediately drawn to the picture of Josephine Powell on the far wall. A wrinkled face with magnetic blue eyes, the American photographer who travelled across Anatolia makes you think of an aged Gertrude Bell, as played by Nicole Kidman in the new movie “Queen of the Desert.”

“It is Izmir which has chosen me,” Charles Emir Richard says when he is asked why he chose to display “Barricade,” his collection of photos from the Gezi Park events, in İzmir for the first time in Turkey. Standing at the heart of the Kedi Culture and Art Center, right on the port of İzmir, […]

Kerem Işık’s dystopian world, as narrated in his latest novel, “Iskalı Karnaval” (The Failed Carnival), is eerily familiar but still hilarious. The 38-year-old writer, who was awarded the Haldun Taner short story award two years ago, says he takes ordinary events and pushes them to the limits of absurdity. Some of the themes comes from […]

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