Tickets on sale at the website. Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Harbiye, 34367 Istanbul The Istanbul Art and Antique Fair is back! Stop by and say hello, we’ll be at our ...

In June 2025 a 16th-century Iznik tile quadrupled its estimate at auction in London but, as Hannah Lucinda Smith discovers, that was only the tip of a fascinating backstory. On its journey from an ...

When two exiled Ottoman princesses married into the family of the richest man in the world, the match made headlines around the globe. Cosmo Brockway describes the opulence that awaited them in ...

Istanbul Secrets of the City Faruk Pekin Alfa Yayınları, £11 Strolling Through Istanbul by John Freely has always been my favourite guide to the city. Its academic but warm and informal approach ...

The Woven Legacies Exhibition, held for the first time in Istanbul from 27-29 November 2025 at Metrohan, celebrated India’s rich textile heritage. Hosted in collaboration with the Consulate General of ...

In the last years of empire, Beyoğlu could boast palaces and embassies as grand as any in Paris or Vienna. Abandoned by the moneyed classes in the first years of the Republic, it became a bohemian ...

‘It is a strong tree bearing a fruit like ye Oliue, sommewhat long, green at first but being ripe it growes yellow or the colour of [red] wax, edible, binding, good for ye flux of ye belly and ye ...

I was anxious about this new biography. I have long maintained a private cult for Arminius Vambéry. This was first fuelled by a youthful reading of his Travels Across Central Asia. I was working in ...