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As a primary focal point of the current cultural and political life in Istanbul, Taksim Square was once a flat expanse surrounded by graveyards…

I closely witnessed the Village Institute movement during the years of my childhood and adolescence. I participated in some of the inspection journeys of my father, then-General…

İstanbul Research Institute presents the exhibition “An Ottoman Building in the Early Republican Era: The Şişli Mosque” with a selection from Suna and İnan…

This post is compiled from Nükhet Sirman’s article in The Anatomy of a Tradition: 150 Years of Robert College 1863 – 2013 exhibition catalog. When my…

The press meeting for the exhibition Mindful Seed Speaking Soil: Village Institutes of the Republic 1940-1954, organized by the collaborative efforts of İstanbul Research Institute and…

A Universal Mystic at the Heart of Modernism Turgut Cansever (1920 – 2009) Turgut Cansever first spun the intellectual cocoon of his own conception…

The panel titled “To Carry Stones with Tonguç: Village Institutes and İsmail Hakkı Tonguç on the 52nd Anniversary of his Death” was held on…

The large part of the unparalleled collection Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi began to put together, not simply for the sale of creating a collection, but…

The Renovation of Casa d’Italia, Tepebaşı As of 1919, the Italian government had begun to use the former Venetian Palace (Palazzo Venezia) and thus,…

An individual that speaks with his own voice and not the voice of others. An individual that cast asides the crutches and stands tall,…