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Santa Sophia

Issue 1 Insider's Turkey

The miracle of Santa Sophia: last great monument of Roman architecture. A Scottish Romantic in the East: the paintings of David Wilkie. Ara Güler’s arresting images.

Turkish roses

Issue 2, £50 ($80) The Essential

Attar of roses: Anatolia’s liquid gold, the basis of all fine scents. Brian Sewell on Alexander the Great.

 

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Fethi Ahmet Pasha

Issue 3, £28 ($44.80) The Pink

Sultans stayed there. Liszt played there. David George captures the original interiors, since destroyed, of Fethi Ahmet Pasha’s house. Brian Sewell on Sinan’s splendours.

Explore Istanbul

Issue 4, £28 ($44.80) The Absolute

Explore Istanbul, the best-kept secret – from Beyoglu to the Bosphorus, from the Golden Horn to the Prince’s Islands.

Thomas Hope

Issue 5, £10 ($16) The Winter
Patricia Daunt and Fritz von der Schulenburg on Istanbul’s imposing winter embassies.
Thomas Hope: the lost drawings of a Regency dandy.

Bosphorus Embassies

Issue 6, £8 ($12.80) Summer Embassies

Where diplomats headed in the heat: Patricia Daunt and Fritz von der Schulenburg on Istanbul’s airy summer embassies.

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Theodocian Walls

Issue 7, £28 ($44.80) The Great

John Julius Norwich and Andrew Finkel on the threat to Istanbul’s city walls. East with the night: a journey to Konya. Jewel on the Bosphorus: Nuri Birgi’s yali.

Kibrisili Yali

Issue 8, £50 ($80) A Turkish

Aegean odyssey: Rose Baring and Barnaby Rogerson go west. An orangery on the Bosphorus: inside the Kibrisli yali. The undiscovered Grand Bazaar.
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Bodrum houses

Issue 9, £50 ($80) Ideal Worlds

Houses in the spirit of Bodrum’s timeless architecture. Ahmet Vefik Pasha’s clifftop library.
 

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Lady Mary Montagu

Issue 10, £20 ($32) Ingres and

How Lady Mary Montagu’s writings on harem life inspired the odalisques of Ingres.
Leighton’s Orient: a Victorian artist’s homage to Ottoman style.

Aphrodisias

Issue 11, £50 ($80) Anatolia Rediscovered

John Julius Norwich on Aphrodisias, David Barchard on the lost Byzantine churches of Cappadocia, John Carswell on Amasya’s cool courtyards, John Ashe on the road to Kubadabad.
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Coruh valley, Ishan cathedral

Issue 12, £28 ($44.80) Black Sea

Black Sea beauties: the astounding
valley of the Coruh, the glorious cathedral of Ishan, the haunting simplicity of Camlihemsin’s mansions.

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Tulips

Issue 13, £28 ($44.80) The Turkish

Flowers in profusion: from the window boxes of Istanbul to Alanya’s medieval gardens, from the Book of Tulips to Rüstem Pasha’s exuberant tiles.

Atabey books

Issue 14, £28 ($44.80) Objects of

Mr Atabey’s books: illustrations from a collector’s library.
From Peking to Paris: Lord Montagu’s motoring odyssey.
 

Mount Athos

Issue 15, £10 ($16) Mountain Secrets

Athos unveiled: 24 pages on the Holy Mountain, the men, the masters and their monasteries.

Buyukada, Princes Islands

Issue 16, £20 ($32) Beguiling Büyükada
Issue 16, £20 ($30)
Buyukada
Why Büyükada, largest of the Prince’s Islands, is an old-fashioned idyll: quirky architecture, faded grandeur, simple pleasures and people to match.
 

Turkish Republic

Issue 17, £10 ($16) The Republic

An extraordinary 40-page portrait of 20th-century Turkey: photographs by Ara Güler, introduced by Norman Stone and David Barchard.

Ottoman Royal Family

Issue 18, £8 ($12.80) The Ottoman

Patricia Daunt on the colourful past of Ratip Efendi’s yali, playground of 1950s café society.
A Turkish garden in the Cambridge Fens.

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Catalhuyuk, Edirne

Issue 19, £10 ($16) Forgotten Riches

7000BC: James Mellaart on the astonishing wall paintings of Çatalhüyük, the world’s first city.
Philip Mansel on the Ottoman booty of Poland’s kings.
 

Lake Koycegiz

Issue 20, £8 ($12.80) The Lake

Undiscovered Lake Köycegiz: a world away from the nearby Med.
Hussein Chalayan: architect turned international couturier.

Ottoman Damascus

Issue 21, £8 ($12.80) Ottoman Damascus

Damascus, the perfumed city: a grand tour with Brigid Keenan.
Istanbul’s heathlands: a precious ecosystem under threat.

Chalet Kiosk

Issue 22, £8 ($12.80) The Sultan's

The magnificent guesthouse built for the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Kula waters: revival of an Aegean spa.

Ottoman Silks

Issue 23, £10 ($16) Haute Ottoman

Glorious garments of the Ottoman court.
Memories of Madam: Ninette de Valois and the birth of Turkish ballet.
Heaven scent: the ultimate attar of roses.
 

Eastern Turkey

Issue 24, £8 ($12.80) The Wild

Euphoria on the Euphrates: a journey to Anatolia’s Arabian frontier.
Great escapes: the untold story of Pope John’s wartime work in Turkey.

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Topkapi porcelain

Issue 25, £10 ($16) The Abstract

Topkapi's blue and white: John Carswell on the Sultans’ porcelain.
Zafer Baran’s mesmeric photography.
The life of Dionysus: Antioch ancient and modern.
 

Neolithic art

Issue 26, £8 ($12.80) The Birth

The birth of art: why southeast Turkey’s neolithic sites are rewriting history.
Patricia Daunt on the Hôtel Nissim de Camondo in Paris.

Max Fruchtermann

Issue 27, £8 ($12.80) Sublime Simplicity

Perfection created with passion: the timeless pots of Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye.
How Turkey travelled the globe with Max Fruchtermann’s postcards.
The dramatic mosaics of the Chora.
 

Russian Churches, Trotsky, Kackars

Issue 28, £10 ($16) Capturing the

Caught in the Caucasus: portraits from another age.
Russians in Istanbul: the Tsar’s rooftop churches, and fishing with Trotsky.
Hiking in heaven: the Kaçkars on foot.

Ottman gardens

Issue 29, £10 ($16) Ottoman Gardens

How the Ottomans turned gardens into an art form.
Iraq’s Turkoman citadel: Kirkuk after the war.
The oldest photographs of Istanbul .

Josephine Powell, Lake Van

Issue 30, £8 ($12.80) Early Journeys

A Fifties expedition to the shores of Lake Van and beyond.
Josephine Powell: an American nomad.

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Uygur homeland

Issue 31, Vol V £20 ($32) China's
Christian Tyler on the plight of China's Turks
David Barchard on the doorman's son who saved the empire

 

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Istanbul Guide

Issue 32,  Special Edition £300

Explore the metropolis in all its glory with area-by-area commentary on Istanbul's palaces and pavilions, mosques and markets, shops and shrines, waterways and watering holes, plus feature articles on the city past and present by leading historians, journalists and photographers.

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Turks 600-1600

Issue 33, £10 ($16) Great Exhibitions

John Carswell takes in "Turks" at the Royal Academy in London. Photos by Fritz von der Schulenburg. Mothers, Goddesses and Sultanas' at Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts.
 

Ottman Kaftans

Issue 34, £28 ($44.80) Ottoman Kaftans

Power Dressing:
the Imperial kaftans on show at Washington's Sackler Gallery
A 40-page celebration of the architecture of the Black Sea Mountains.

TOthmar Pferschy

Issue 35, £28 ($44.80) Istanbul Elegy

The poetic images of Othmar Pferschy. On horseback through Cappadocia. Istanbul's railway stations. James Mellaart, archaeologist ahead of his time.

Zeyrek Camii, Sykes in Turkestan, Ethem Pertev Yali

Issue 36, £10 ($16) A Beauty

The Palace Lady's yali
Restoring the Zeyrek Camii. The Crimean War
Sir Percy Sykes in Turkestan.

ICOC Istanbul 2007

Issue 37, £200 ($320) A Riot

Fabulous Fabrics in Istanbul. Edirne: a beautiful backwater. Lesley Blanch's life on the wilder shores. Dux Schneider: by donkey in the Bolkars.
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Bursa

Issue 38, £20 ($32) The Big

Ottoman Bursa
Ahmed Vefik Pasha
Turkey's equestrian paradise
The best of Turkey's art books
Food for feasts
Raki tasting
Min Hogg in Cappadocia.

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Ankara Embassies

Issue 39, £10 ($16) Diplomatic Secrets
Ankara's palaces of diplomacy. Eksioglu's eccentric vision. George Maw crocus collector. Phrygian highlands and Anatolian nomads
 

Cornucopia retrospective

Issue 40, £10 ($16) Highlights of

Byzantium at the RA, Orientalists at the Pera Museum, Aphrodisius, plus Min Hogg's enchanted eye

Istanbul Hammams

Issue 41, £10 ($16) Bathing Beauty
Inside Istanbul's grand hammams.
The private world of Selim III. Charles Newton excavates Bodrum and Knidos.

Black Sea mountains

Issue 42, £10 ($16) Adventures in
The Great Northeast
Hill walks, butterflies and festivals in the Kackars, Istanbul's Impressionists, Rebiya Kadeer, Queen of the Uighurs

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