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Hürriyet Daily News The head of the Turkey’s Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) Fethi Şimşek said the organization handed in the necessary phone records in the case of murdered Armenian journalist Hrant ...

Biography Tevfik learned Persian as a young man, and became a Mevlevi in İzmir. He then moved to Istanbul and continued his Mevlevi practice in Galata and Kasımpaşa. In 1902 he became a Bektashi dervish. His interest in poetry influenced ...

Carpet weaving is the traditional art of Turks and the development of the arts linked to the Turks since its inception, with early woven fragments discovered in Central Asia. The ...

Adam Mickiewicz Museum (Polish: Muzeum Adama Mickiewicza, Turkish: Adam Mickiewicz Müzesi) is a historic house museum dedicated to the life of Adam Mickiewicz, renowned Polish poet. It is located in the district of Beyoğlu, on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. It ...

Another major sporting event that takes place in Turkey is the Turkish Grand Prix. The track located at Istanbul has a seating capacity of 155,000 people (biggest in Europe), is just over 5,340 m long ...

Turkish cuisine is renowned as one of the world's best. It is considered to be one of the three main cuisines of the world because of the variety of its ...

Istanbul Fashion Week (IFW) is going to be held from September 7-11 in the old city of Beyoglu, in the Turkish capital city of Istanbul. Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters’ ...

1897 Sigmund Weinberg (Romanian) hosts the first public screening of a film in Beyoglu, Istanbul. 1914 First film made by a Turk in Turkey. 1922 Kemal Film (Seded Brothers) is ...

Cinema speaks out within each country’s culture even if it is perceived to be an international language. All remarkable movements in the film industry in Turkey were affected by its ...

Western influence had already begun to be felt in Ottoman music towards the middle of the 19th century. These increased towards the end of the century, and led to efforts ...