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Two old neighbourhoods on the Golden Horn's southern shore, packed tight between the Byzantine land walls and the water. Balat was the Jewish quarter, Fener the Greek one, and both wear their layered history on the street: steep lanes of narrow houses painted every colour, a Greek Orthodox patriarchate still functioning behind high walls, synagogues and churches and mosques within a few minutes of each other. In the last decade the colour drew the cameras, and the murals came — Balat is now one of the city's densest street-art quarters, art applied straight onto the old façades. Up the hill at the edge of the walls stands the Kariye Mosque, the former Chora church, holding the finest Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul.
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Wikidata knows Gladiator was filmed in Morocco. It doesn’t know where.
Ouarzazate is the second most filmed place in the Middle East and North Africa, yet 25 of its 27 productions are recorded only in Wikipedia prose. We compared filming records worldwide and found that in the Arab world, Wikidata usually knows the country but not the place.
Newly uncovered ceramic cargo near Kekova rewrites prehistoric navigation records
Archaeologists operating off the Turkish coast have recovered approximately thirty Early Bronze Age storage jars, offering rare physical proof of ancient maritime trade networks.
A padlocked gate with no walls, two rival graves, and stories told among two dozen peoples: how the wise fool of the Islamic world became a shape every culture fills with itself.
In Akşehir, a tomb said to hold Nasreddin Hodja stands in an open pavilion behind a heavy padlocked gate — with no wall on either side. It is the perfect monument to a man who may not be in it. The stories told under his name belong to more than one tradition and more than one century: Turkish, Persian, Arab, Central Asian, Uyghur. Reformist satirists, Soviet novelists, Chinese animators and UNESCO have each tried to give him a fixed home.
Founder Ali Güreli outlines spatial upgrades, Asian focus, and proposed fiscal incentives for the growing fair
The latest iteration of Contemporary Istanbul returns to Tersane Istanbul with a unified ground-level layout, a strategic pivot towards Asian galleries, and discussions surrounding potential tax reforms to stimulate corporate collecting.
The twenty-first edition welcomes seventeen new exhibitors while navigating regional economic headwinds
A look at how the Istanbul fair balances local momentum with international growth against a backdrop of macroeconomic volatility.
Aerial surveys and optical distortions reshape how we perceive landscape and history
Borusan Contemporary presents Olivo Barbieri's first Turkish solo show, examining how elevated perspectives and manipulated focus transform familiar terrains into abstract compositions.
