Postcards from paradise Articles on Büyükada by Andrew Finkel, John Carswell, Elizabeth Meath Baker and Angela Berzeg Photographs by Simon Upton
In a 36 page tribute, Cornucopia offers five contrasting views of the largest of the Princes Islands, Büyükada. Distant enough for monastic retreat and political exile, close enough for the summer migration of Istanbul's bourgeoisie, this beguiling island has a tranquil past but a perilous future. Andre Finkel looks back with affection on thirty years of summer holidays; John Carswell records his first impressions; Elizabeth Meath Baker and Angela Berzeg unlock the doors to three of its most fascinating houses.
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Also on the Princes Islands: Cornucopia 28 Trotsky on Prinkipo, by Norman Stone
Zeki Kuneralp was raised far from home on a farm in the Swiss Alps. He returned to become one of the century's most venerated diplomats. David Barchard pays tribute
Kuneralp, outside the Ambassador's residence in Portland Place, London, in 1963, on his way to the palace. Even in later years, in spite of immense personal tragedy, he remained a fount of wisdom and good advice to a host of diplomats, ministers and journalists.
More fascinating profiles by David Barchard in Cornucopia
Art
Theatre of war by Christine Thomson
In the race to dominate the world, sixteenth-century rulers, both Christian and Ottoman, took their military rivalry onto the streets in glorious cavalcades evoking the triumphal processions of Ancient Rome. Christine Thomson is dazzled by the splendour of a spectacular renaissance
Suleyman's sensational helmet was made in response to engravings of the Holy Roman Emporer's coronation. It earned him the epithat 'The Magnificent'
The lighthouse at Cape Chelidonia, the southernmost point of the Bay of Antalya, stands sentinel over what is now one of the Mediterranean's most peaceful stretches of coastline. Three generations of one family have kept the light shining here since it was first lit in 1938. Now, the in te face of satellite technology, darkness is threatening to return. Kate Clow reports
Cornucopia 27 Beaufort's 1890 map of Turkey's south coast
In the late 19th century, in the face of an increasingly corrupt consular service in the Near East, ambitious plans were laid in Istanbul to train an elite corps of young British diplomats
Right: Sir Robert Graves (class of 1879), in the costume of a Scutari Muslim bey.
Cookery
A feast of figs by Berrin Torolsan
It is hard to improve on the intense fragrance of the fabled fig, oozing with honeyed, nutty succulence. Berrin Torolsan keeps her recipes short and sweet.
For a complete list of Berrin Torolsan's cookery stories in Cornucopia, see our cookery index. Selected recipes are also available online: menus.
Exhibitions
Words of art The Sakip Sabanci Collection of Calligraphy by Tim Stanley
Right: An album of excercises in the Ta'lik style by Haci Nazif Bey (1846-1913). This religious poem is designed to show the proportions, ligatures and letter forms developed by Yesarizade Mustafa Izzet Efendi in the 19th century
Book reviews by Maureen Freely, Antony Wynn, Philippa Scott and Tim Stanley
Arts: The art of Mungo McCosh by Brian Sewell
Profile: Christoph Urban talks to James Dorsey of the Wall Street Journal
Despatches from Robert Ousterhout, Charles Vaughn, Harvey Broadbent, Frances Kazan and Azize Ethem. Trade Secrets: Candlemaker Gülzen Bükülmez of Tay Mum by Elizabeth Meath Baker
