The Republic Cornucopia celebrates Turkey's 75th birthday with 40 pages of photographs by Ara Güler and John Brunton and articles by Norman Stone and David Barchard.
It was the century of Turkey's birth, of unprecedented peace and hard-won prosperity. In just 75years, Turkey has come a long way. At the end ofthe First World War, her defeated and crumbling empire possessed few towns or industries and was surrounded by neighbours hungry for her lands.
Top left: Young turks in front of Anit Kabir, the national monumentin Ankara, the new nation's capital. 'Turk! Be proud, be confident, work!' it urges.
Top right: Celebrating the new Republic before the introduction of the latin alphabet
Below left:The shores of the Bosphorus conceal waterside resorts and retreats such as the lido at Club 29
Below right: Sebah & Joaillier were the photographers to the rising middle classes in the heyday of late Ottoman istanbul, Waistcoats, fob chains and sailor suits were de rigeur for young gentlemen; girls wore their best ribbons and lace.
Silence of the Lammergeiers Walking in Turkey's lake district by Kate Clow with photographs by Terry Richardson and Kate Clow
The towering peaks and rolling foothills of Turkey's LakeDistrict simply take one's breath away.
Egirdir, at theheart of Anatolia's majestic Lake District and the midpoint of a triangle of mountains, is great trekking country. In winter intrepid walkers share the snowy silence of the Davras, Gelincik and Dedegül peaks with wheeling lammergeiers, or lamb-vultures. In summer these towering limestone massifs, are home to migrant herds of goatsand sheep, are a refuge from the heat of the coastal plain. For the trekker, each peak has it sown appeal.
The great yali of Zeki Pasha by Patricia Daunt with photographs by Jean Marie del Moral
Built as a glittering prize, then closed through war and exile, this flamboyant survivor is one of the last of the great waterfront mansions of theBosphorus.
Top: Inside the entrance to the house, the staircase winds up from the marble hall, dominated by a neoclassical urn, to what are now apartments on the upper floors.
Below: Zeki Pasha's house, unconventionally built of brick, once scandalised the Bosphorus. Few of its wooden neighbours survived, so today it stands marooned, defying both its original detractors and the late twentieth century.
More historic Bosphorus yalis explored by Patricia Daunt
Cookery
The family brassica The cabbage and the cauliflower Text and photographs by Berrin Torolsan
The cabbage and the cauliflower are the Old World's culinary warriors, arming high tables and low with essential vitamins and minerals. They also deserve a medal for sheer versatility. Berrin Torolsan introduces a deliciously fortifying feast.
Recipes include stuffed cabbage leaves, cabbage leaves stuffed with chestnuts, kapuska, cabbage pickle and red cabbage salad; and cauliflower fritters, cauliflower salad, and cauliflower and broccoli au gratin.
For a complete list of Berrin Torolsan's cookery stories in Cornucopia, see our cookery index. Selected recipes are also available online: menus.
Profile
Headhunting by DerinTurkomer
The memoirs of Frederick Courtney Selous, naturalist, explorer and probably the greatest of all the African hunters of the nineteenth century, recall his hunting expeditions in Turkey.
Connoisseur
A carpetbaggers guide by Philippa Scott
Philippa Scott introduces a new series of articles on the fine art of carpet collecting
A Lotto rug features in Bartolomeo Bettera's "Still Life' c.1600
