I cannot imagine the northwestern city of Bursa without Nâzım Hikmet or Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, or the western border city Edirne without Niyazı Akıncıoğlu or central Anatolian Konya without Rumi (Mevlânâ).
My piece about Aysel Ekşi’s book titled “Youth in Turkey and in Five Continents” (Türkiye’de ve Beş Kıt’ada Gençler) has received interest and inquiries beyond my expectations.
One of the aces of art history, sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti’s (1901–1966) first comprehensive exhibition in Turkey has just been opened at Istanbul’s Pera Museum.
Election campaigns will be starting soon. While party programs are currently being written and the final drafts are taking shape, I wonder what the parties will pledge in the field of culture and arts. What will their approach be?
I have a daily Hürriyet Saturday supplement from 2003. A photo of Yaşar Kemal is smiling at me. The title of the interview is this: “İnce Memed is 50 years old, his novel that upgraded Yaşar Kemal from the stove-heated house.”
The death of each good writer and good friend is like the death of some part of you. This is what I felt with the passing of Yaşar Kemal
An exhibition has been opened at Istanbul’s Koç University which exhibits what was done to justify a war, to prove that war is inevitable. It is an exhibition that we all should learn lessons from.
Several books published in Ottoman have been transcribed into the Latin alphabet and re-published. Is it possible for the young generation to read and understand them today? The answer to this is a huge 'No'
Design comes as the lump sum of initiatives, studies and creations for the future. Designing is essentially creating for a further date. Today, the dominant concept of many genres is design.
