In the West-oriented educational setting of the 1920s, as part of the Ministry of Education’s initiative to send successful students abroad to help them…

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

Aram Pehlivanyan, Sarkis Keçyan (Zanku), Zaven Biberyan and Avedis Aliksanyan published the first issue of the daily newspaper Nor Or (New Day) on 21 July 1945.…

This rare book is the third edition of Ayşe Fahriye’s Ev Kadını (Housewife), originally published in 1882. The book was transcribed in 2002 by Leman Erdemli and…

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

One hundred years ago, at the height of the Balkan Wars, Bulgarian forces moved into Macedonia and Thrace, finally taking Edirne on 26 March…

Universal Modernism for a Polyphonic Republic İlhan Usmanbaş (b.1921) 1950s’ modernism penetrated the universal culture fabric through the music of İlhan Usmanbaş. At this…

İstanbul Research Institute presents The Four-Legged Municipality: Street Dogs of İstanbul, an exhibition that sheds light upon the adventure of street dogs, an integral part of İstanbul’s daily…

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

Gabriel Millet (1867–1953) established Byzantine art history and archaeology as an academic field in France at the turn of the twentieth century. Trained in…