• Mathias Depardon at the exhibition in front of his pictures of immigrants.

    Mathias Depardon at the exhibition in front of his pictures of immigrants.

Mathias Depardon: Capturing the plight of immigrants

Mathias Depardon, a young Belgian photographer has been capturing the plight of immigrants crossing borders legally or illegally for the last 15 years.

Sanne Kuipers

13/03/13 - 12:05

 

Greek-owned “international” restaurant of Forum Istanbul

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With the economic crisis hitting harder as new austerity measures are imposed on people and businesses in Greece, neighboring Turkey offers openings for resourceful Greeks. Earth Café at Forum Istanbul is one of those Greek-owned enterprises.

Marie Tihon

7/12/12 - 10:52

Not all Erasmus students are foreigners

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“I wanted to experience something completely different.” “I like to know a new countries and cultures.” These are probably the most frequent answers when someone asks an Erasmus student why did he or she chose Istanbul as a destination for exchange study. But there are also others who would probably give you a different answer.

Aleš Černý

6/12/12 - 15:46

German expats prepare for Christmas in Istanbul

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German expats in Istanbul opened the Holiday Season with a Christmas sale at the German School. There were long lines waiting to get inside but some complained of lack of Christmas atmosphere.

Melanie Bröcker

6/12/12 - 15:10

Spending bayram by doing good deeds

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With my Turkish friends I spent the “bayram” doing good deeds, Turkish style. We went to the historical needy and old people’s home, Darulaceze, of Istanbul and I learned how to kiss hands and put them on my forehead.

Marie Tihon

13/11/12 - 13:34

For good or bad Tarlabaşı is changing

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Tarlabaşı is one of the neighborhoods at the center of Istanbul undergoing urban renewal plans. For some inhabitants it means becoming homeless and for others it is an investment opportunity.

Melanie Bröcker

9/11/12 - 15:23

Fans try to launch floorball as official sport in Turkey

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A dedicated team of Turks and foreigners is trying to launch floorball as an official sports branch in Turkey. The International Floorball Federation has member associations from 54 countries.

Aleš Černý

29/10/12 - 14:07

‘Kind of Cai’: Miles Davis meets flamenco

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Fusion jazz combining Spanish Flamenco with Miles Davis inspired notes was performed by a trio from Cadiz, Spain in Istanbul’s jazz club Nardis. Their inspiration came from New York 50 years ago.

Javier Bau Hernandez

17/10/12 - 13:28

Women robbed of their future

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Documentary film “Playhouse” tells the story of 5.5 million women in Turkey who are or were child brides. Filmmaker Bingol Elmas explains the stories behind these child marriages.

Sandra Sperling

17/10/12 - 13:11

First Greek publishing house in 50 years launched in Istanbul

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A group of young people from Istanbul’s Rum community and academicians from Greece launched a Greek publishing house called Istos (Web) half a century after Greek publishing in Istanbul ceased in Istanbul.

News,Etc.

5/06/12 - 15:44

“Silent witnesses of their times”

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Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, widely known as Kapali Carsi (Covered Bazaar) is full of amazing surprises. Murat Bilir who has a liliputian shop selling what he terms as “cultural objects” is one of those surprises. He has a story to go with each artifact he displays.

Silvia Deufel

20/05/12 - 23:40

 

20 May Monday

Kronik Medya

Five reasons why Ankara is worth the trip

Melanie Bröcker

Despite what people here in Istanbul say, a trip to the Turkish capital Ankara is worthwhile. My four-day stay in Ankara was quite enjoyable although it contrasted with the daily life here in Istanbul.

other articles


  • David Harvey at Bilgi: Urban organization to beat crises of capitalism

    A different kind of urbanization of which the main movers will be the excluded masses who cannot exercise their right to the city is needed to overcome the recurrent crises of capitalism, famous British social scientist David Harvey told a packed auditorium at the Bilgi University.

    10/06/12 - 23:50

  • Istanbul, the most beautiful and the most ugly”

    Istanbul is the most beautiful city in Europe and at the same time the most ugly one according to Kai Strittmatter, the correspondent of the influential German daily “Süddeutsche Zeitung” who published recently a book entitled “Gebrauchsanweisung für Istanbul” that can be translated as “Users Manual for Istanbul.

    6/05/12 - 21:07

  • German on the road

    The purpose of the program is to motivate young Turks to learn German as their second or third foreign language. For this purpose a German bus has been traveling all over Turkey with young lecturers from Germany taking turns on board since September 2010.

    2/05/12 - 02:47

  • Visiting SALT: A hub of cultural activity

    The place is called simply SALT. It has the widest range of cultural activity from urban problems to film shows. The visitors can contribute too.

    22/12/11 - 03:36

  • Europeans learn Islamic banking

    The crisis shaking the financial world leads to new trends one of which is Islamic banking. In Brussels, two training courses are launched for those who want to learn everything about Islamic banking. ‘If everybody would have banked according to the sharia’, one of the organizers says, ‘there would be no crisis’.

    11/12/11 - 22:42

  • KREK: A complete new approach to theater

    At Santral Istanbul KREK theater is displaying a new approach to dramaturgy. Their works are also going to be performed in Europe.

    25/11/11 - 01:58

  • A ghost story from bustling Beyoglu

    Stories don’t need to be true to be good. The one I’m about to tell you is partly true and partly speculation. Or what else would you expect from a ghost story?

    23/11/11 - 00:57

  • Journalism: A dying profession?

    Next to his job as professor at Bilgi University, Prof. Dr. Haluk Şahin is also a renowned journalist whose latest book is called ‘Final notes on a dying profession’ and deals with the future of Turkish media. When it comes to Prof. Dr. Haluk Şahin, that future is anything but rosy.

    15/11/11 - 01:01

  • A traveling Czech in a most unlikely place

    What the heck a Czech girl passing the Islamic feast of sacrifice in a remote village with only five houses in eastern Turkey near the Armenian border? Moreover, she is in this country for the first time.

    6/12/10 - 15:57

  • An English philosopher at football stand

    Stephen Mumford is the head of Humanities School at Nottingham University, U.K. He is a philosophy teacher with a PhD. From Leeds University entitled “Dispositions and Reductionism.” But this introduction should not mislead the reader. He is by no means a long-haired, bearded, spectacled, and pensive philosopher. This is maybe due to his interest in football that goes back to his childhood years.

    25/04/10 - 18:19

  • Polonezkoy: Struggling to preserve its Polish identity

    In the Istanbul suburb, surrounded by woods in the company of wild animals lies a place which used to be called by the inhabitants, the ‘Polish oasis in foreign land’. More than a century-and-half after its foundation Polonezkoy is struggling to retain its Polish character.

    17/10/09 - 17:54