Akın Balık: An Istanbul Legend
There is one word I can use for Akın Balık and that is ‘interesting’. It…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
There is one word I can use for Akın Balık and that is ‘interesting’. It…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
İstanbul hosts a range of high end restaurants that overpromise and are overpriced. There is…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
Although I am a fan of the cultural scene in Beyoğlu, I have had a…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
“For me it has always been a city of ruins and of end-of-empire melancholy. I’ve…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
Everyone culture has its flaws. I think one of our biggest flaws is our relation…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
A painting depicting old Üsküdar during the Ottoman Era when people used boats for transportation…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
Çağlar Fidan is a talented young artist specialised in old Ottoman and Turkish music. He…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/03/2025
There is an exciting exhibition hall founded by businessman and activist Osman Kavala. When I…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 08/03/2025
A photo from old Istanbul where Rums were the inhabitants of Prinkipo (today’s Büyükada) living…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 08/03/2025
i speak tothee with a swordand thou art silentthy breast is as a tombsofter than…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 08/03/2025
Jean Baptiste Vanmour was a painter who came to İstanbul in 1699 in the suite…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 07/03/2025
Ottomans lived in an ego-centric world in which they believed they were the centre of…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 06/03/2025
Although tulips originated in central Asia and was cultivated in İran by the 10th century,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 06/03/2025
The title of this article is taken from the book about the psychobiography of Atatürk…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 06/03/2025
I think there are few cities around the world that have gone through such a…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 06/03/2025