Houses made from wool that warm in the depths of winter, carpets that tell stories, woven bands that appease ancestors, embroideries that ward off evil, and kilims that store kitchenware, with ...

Anatolian revelations: from Ankara’s sleekest animals to medieval Mardin, a city on the faultline of history, and Latmos, the Aegean’s forgotten Holy Mountain… plus the special secret of Turkish ice ...

Two highly-skilled violinists – Ksenia Milas, born in St Petersburg, and Oleksandr Semchuk, born in Ukraine – are to play a selection of Baroque and more modern works. This concert is entitled Sade ve ...

Join Bettany Hughes in conversation, Saturday 8 February 11.30–12.30 at the British Museum! Huges will explore the ‘endlessly fascinating, multi-layered city of Istanbul and its role as a meeting ...

Unforced Errors, Coincidences and Lost Years marked Toygun Özdemir’s fifth solo exhibition at Öktem Aykut Gallery, featuring a carefully curated collection of 22 works created over the past three ...

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

On October 15 I made my way to Beyoğlu for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by the artist Rahşan Düren entitled Verwegenheit, which I believe means ‘audacity’ or ‘boldness’ in German. I had ...

The curtain rose to reveal an enormous sculpture of a horse’s head, equalling the height of the theatre and encased in a cube of LED-lit scaffolding. This was the opening night of Handel’s Tamerlano, ...

The Brass Ensemble of the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – consisting of four trumpets, two horns, four trombones and a tuba – are to play arrangements of works by J.S. Bach (his ...

“Critical Shifts,” a group exhibition on displacement is curated by Maria Korolkova,Margarita Osepyan, and Kate Umnova. The group of 22 participating Turkish and International artists are Greta Alfaro ...

Camel caravans crossing desert dunes, merchants trading silks and spices at bazaars – these are the images that come to mind when we think of the Silk Roads. But the reality goes far beyond this.

A friend once confessed the frustration of setting a story in Istanbul, a city where not even the past stands still. The place you think you should start is never the place you actually start – and ...