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Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. “April is the cruellest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot, “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory...
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. This week, we trade Istanbul’s familiar tempo for Izmir’s slower, more porous rhythm again to explore...
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. This week's theme centers on World Water Day, observed every year on March 22, a United Nations initiative...
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. This week’s edition plays with time. We begin with Halil Pasha, the Ottoman painter who captured Istanbul’s...
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. As we mark International Women’s Day next Sunday, it feels only right to dedicate this issue to women who have...
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. This week, white takes the lead, from Ayla Turan’s pale, pared-back figures at Is Sanat to the linen tables and...
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. This week, we lounge in the afterglow of Valentine’s Day and the flurry of February openings across the city....
Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul. Love is in the air — and in the galleries, on the plates and between the pages. As Valentine’s Day...
Welcome back to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we return to one of Turkey’s most quietly compelling artistic families, led by Semiha Berksoy and...
Welcome back to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, the Istanbul newsletter makes a detour to Ankara, then on to Brussels and Vancouver, as we chase the...
Welcome back to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, the Istanbul newsletter makes a detour to Ankara, then on to Brussels and Vancouver, as we chase the...
Welcome back to Al-Monitor Istanbul. Have you, like me, started longing for sunshine? Here is an exhibition that offers a little warmth and a gentle...
Welcome back to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This issue is about love and lahmacun — the thin, crisp flatbread topped with finely minced, unapologetically...
Welcome back to Al-Monitor Istanbul. We begin the year not by looking back, but by looking ahead. The first edition of 2026 opens with a close reading...
Season’s greetings from Al-Monitor Istanbul. As we step into the new year, it has been 14 months since the first edition of Istanbul City Pulse was...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we move out of the city once more, to Eskisehir, a UNESCO-listed town we love to cover. We also offer...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. As the year winds down, Istanbul leans happily into its guilty pleasures: Michelin stars multiplying across the map,...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. As we prepare for the end of the year, this issue explores memory, shattered buildings and disrupted lives — from...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. I am writing this week’s newsletter from BASE, where the country’s newest artists are showing their work to...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we take a gentle scolding from a loyal reader who thinks we have been dazzled by shiny new trends and...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. As Turkish parliamentarians battle over a new bill reshaping the ownership and management of foundation and cultural...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. November calls for nostalgia, flickering memories and a soft focus. So this week’s issue looks at Burhan Uygur,...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. November is when Istanbul drops its Indian-summer disguise and slips into its favorite mood: brooding, dark and a...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. As the Istanbul Biennial dominates the city’s conversation, you might crave a quieter refuge: Try EArt Gallery in...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. Roses, cabbage and Ottoman secrets: While the Biennial buzz fills Beyoglu and Karakoy, it’s worth slowing down for...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, just before Oct. 13 — the date Ankara became the capital of Turkey more than a century ago — we...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. Istanbul has inspired legions of photographers, so this week’s edition zooms in on the medium, thanks to the latest...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. Quite the coincidence: The week President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his long-awaited visit to the White House, we...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we delve into the 18th edition of Istanbul Biennial — “The Three-Legged Cat” — which has just...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. We have a slightly longer newsletter to prepare for the exciting weeks ahead, as the 18th Istanbul Biennial, titled...
From anguish to stillness: Sarkis returns Subscribe for less than $9/month to access this story and all Al-Monitor reporting. Subscribe
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. The end of August finds us in Cesme and Alacati, twin escapes an hour from Izmir. We begin with Alacati’s take on...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we detour to the Aegean’s thinking person’s escape — Urla — on our way from Izmir to Cesme. Urla...
Tugce Diri’s ‘Silent Witnesses’ invites reflection in Bodrum Subscribe for less than $9/month to access this story and all Al-Monitor...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we explore the triumphs of Turkish artists — and chefs — making waves abroad. From gilded bowls in New...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we dive into the age of angst, tracing artistic responses to corroded legitimacy, institutional fatigue...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. “You’re only recommending air-conditioned places, aren’t you?” asked a friend as I put the finishing touches...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, the Istanbul Newsletter takes a detour, traveling from Istanbul to Ankara to explore what the capital has...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week's theme is airports, errors and escapes, from a princess’ abstract rebellion at Istanbul Airport to a...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. With record temperatures and wildfires blazing across Turkey this week, we turn to water — as a memory, myth, ...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week’s dispatch explores the legendary artist Omer Uluc’s boundary-pushing universe at Istanbul Modern,...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. June 15 is celebrated as Father's Day in Turkey, so this is our fathers’ issue — stirred by a recent restaurant...
Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. This week, we open literal and metaphorical drawers in the city's most theatrical minds and myth-infused corners....
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