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Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors ... a major exhibition devoted to Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004), celebrates a pioneering artist whose versatility and resolve enabled her to break new ground in both Türkiye and Europe. The exhibition brings together her expansive body of work – spanning the performing arts, visual arts, cinema,

Although called the Princes' Islands, named as being a place of exile for unwanted heirs apparent, I know it for the exile of Byzantine queens and empresses who are favoured in John Ash's account (cf. After Ash). The great English poet who lived and drank in İstanbul

good morning İstanbul! Günaydın! stashed our luggage at the Hilton and headed out to the flea market minutes from it. The ladies, by Maurice Sendak, pictured above prepared gözleme with spinach and feta. Inspired, I contemplated restarting my typewriter collection and other aberrations, like a good flea market should. I