Category: Art & Culture
The mother-daughter producing partners have, via their HiddenLight production company, optioned author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s ‘The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice’ for the small screen. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have set ...
The state-run body says the eye-shaped blue amulets – believed to date back to at least 3,300 BCE – are incompatible with Islam. Ankara, Turkey – The state-run religious authority has caused alarm by proclaiming the ...
Once upon a time, in the old, old days when the mouse was a barber, and the donkey ran errands, and the tortoise baked bread, there was a great mountain called Kaf Daği on the ...
About 15 years ago, Turkey had just launched its first satellite TV station and was able to broadcast around the world. A very popular genre of drama series called “dizi” had been born, and it ...
PHOTO: Birgün daily Video footage circulating on Turkish social media on Thursday showing the destruction of the inner walls of the medieval Galata Tower in İstanbul has led to public outrage, according to a report ...
Flatbreads exist in most Middle Eastern cuisine, from Moroccan msemen to Iranian taftoon. Every country has their own unique flatbreads, but one that is shared widely across borders is lahmacun. These meat-topped flatbreads are a ...
Filmmaker Alan Parker, one of Britain’s most successful directors whose movies included Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express and Evita, has died at 76, his family said. Parker’s diverse body of work includes Fame, Mississippi Burning, The ...
TEHRAN – Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts (MCHTH) announced on Monday that it is opposed to Turkey’s proposal to register Islamic calligraphy as its own heritage on the UNESCO List of the ...
When Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was released from prison on February 18 after 840 days of solitary confinement, he walked to freedom carrying the companions that had kept him company in isolation: two small snails that ...
Erdogan beware: Innovative new Turkish drama ‘Ethos’ centers around feminine solidarity, features a lesbian couple and critiques religious institutions. My wife’s a big fan of Turkish drama series. On a recent visit to Istanbul, she ...