A glimpse into Ahmet Abut’s archives, photographs from the 19th and 20th century Büyükada curated by Şule Gazioğlu.

The Adventure of the Second Wife is the debut novel of renowned journalist and Cornucopia contributing editor Andrew Finkel. It’s a compelling mystery about a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast who, with the ...

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 ...

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 10am – 6pm Friday, 10am – 8pm Free admission on Thursdays for residents of Türkiye between 10.00-14.00 hours. Free admission on Tuesdays between 10.00-14 ...

On Sunday June 9 I went to the Atatürk Cultural Centre in Taksim Square to attend the last orchestral concert of the 52nd İKSV Istanbul Music Festival. This event featured the Tekfen Philharmonic ...

The Bergama Theatre Festival is celebrating its 5th year with a full 3 day program of plays, talks, workshops, walks and panels all set in the historical backdrop of ancient Pergama. The festival ...

Cornucopia works in partnership with the digital publishing platform Exact Editions to offer individual and institutional subscribers unlimited access to a searchable archive of fascinating back ...

Until 1950, no travellers were permitted to cross the Euphrates. Southeast Turkey was simply out of bounds. Among the first to visit when restrictions were finally lifted was a photographer, the late ...

There has been no road map in the life of Josephine Powell. As restless as the nomadic tribes she followed, she has simply let things happen. But along the way, she has become a photographer and an ...

Elizabeth Rodini’s thoughtful account traces the circuitous journey made by the portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror by Gentile Bellini that now belongs to the National Gallery in London (above right).

Modern readers are apt to sigh when they turn from Busbecq’s letters to artless contemporary accounts, but Domenico’s rather stilted descriptions take up only about a quarter of Domenico’s Istanbul, ...

The whole of the Köyceğiz area is famous for its dwellings of woven wood. The best surviving ones are in Hamitköy, on the lake’s western shore. These unique primitive habitations, now abandoned for ...