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Issue 27, 2002
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Cover: Pot by Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, by Jean Marie del
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Cornucopia 27, 2002 |
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Cover Story THE PLATONIC BOWL:
ALEV EBÜZZIYA
SIESBYE By Alistair McAlpine Photographs:
Jean Marie del Moral | 
| The pots of Alev
Ebuzziya Siesbye have an ideal serenity and timeless beauty, as visitors to her recent retrospective in
Istanbul have discovered. But their cool simplicity belies the passion that goes into creating them. Alistair
McAlpine met the artist in Paris.
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ARCHITECTURE
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Byzantine Art DRAMA IN
THE ROUND By Robert Ousterhout Photographs: Scala/Archaeology and Art Publications | 
| The dramatic mosaics and frescoes of Istanbul’s Kariye Camii, or Church of the Chora, blew away
the stiff conventions of Byzantine art. Their energy leaves Giotto looking staid. But they are now in danger
of turning to dust. The powerful pictures on these pages are from a new book by Robert Ousterhout, who fell
in love with the church twenty-five years ago. Here he makes a passionate case for preserving this
fourteenth-century masterpiece
See full article and order the book, The Art of the Kariye Camii, by Robert
Ousterhout
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COLLECTING
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Postcards WISH YOU
WERE HERE By Elizabeth Meath Baker Illustrations: Mert Sandalci | 
| Max
Fruchtermann (1852-1918) was the publisher who took the postcard to Turkey and thereby took Turkey to the
world. His cards sold by the million. Mert Sandalci - historian, archivist and librettist - has assembled
thousands of these cards into three mammoth volumes. Elizabeth Meath Baker leafs through their
pages
The
Postcards of Max Fruchtermann, by Mert Sandalci
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P R O F I L E S
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Tribute to Turhan Baytop TRAVELS WITH TURHAN By Brian Mathew Photographs: Cafer Türkmen | 
| Brian Mathew pays
tribute to the late Turhan Baytop,Turkey’s pre-eminent botanist. who died in
June
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Stratford Canning and Mahmut
II PARALLEL LIVES By David Barchard Illustrations courtesy of the author | 
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| Both were ambitious men with a penchant for poetry
who suffered extremes of fortune. David Barchard charts the ties between two dominant figures in
nineteenth-century Turkey, the British ambassador Stratford Canning and the Ottoman sultan Mahmut
II
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T R A V E L
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The Man who
put Turkey on the Map BEAUFORT'S HUNT By Nicholas
Courtney Photographs: James Mortimer and Kate Clow | 
| Francis Beaufort’s epic 1812 survey of Turkey’s
southern coast and its classical sites sparked a European treasure hunt. It also very nearly cost him his
life.
Order GALEFORCE 10: The Life and Times of Admiral Beaufort, by Nicholas
Courtney
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The Pamukkale Express TIME TRAVELLING By Jane Taka Photographs by Kerem Uzel | 
| Travelling on the Pamukkale Express between Denizli and
Istanbul is a comforting exercise in nostalgia. And in places the scenery is almost biblical. Jane Taka is
lulled by the charms of the sleeper train.
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R E V I E W
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BOOK REVIEWS By Maureen Freely, David Barchard,
John Carswell, John Freely | 
| Brian Sewell sulks in the south; Irfan Orga samples nomadic life; Michael Meeker delves into Of;
Anthony Bryer scours Black Sea monuments; Jerry Brotton and Rosamond Mack go back to the bazaar; Roddy
O’Connor relives Sixties Istanbul
- Available online from
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reviews
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CD REVIEWS By Ates
Orga | 
| Passionate Revelation: piano recordings by Fazil Say, reviewed by Ates Orga (see book
offers)
- Fazil Say CDs reviewed
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F
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Cookery THE BIG APPLE By Ursula Buchan and Berrin Torolsan Photographs: Berrin Torolsan | 
| It’s official. The large, juicy apples we buy in shops
and markets, or love to eat fresh from our gardens, have a single common ancestor in the East. Ursula Buchan
tackles the science, while Berrin Torolsan heads for the
kitchen
- From the Heavenly
Mountains...
- to the Garden of
Anatolia...
Recipes
include:
- Alma dolmasi / Stuffed
apples
- Elma Armut Tursusu / Pickled apples and pears
- Kaymakli elma tatlisi / Poached apples
- Elma
Kompostosu / Apple compote
- Caucasian apple strrudel
- Tukenmez / Never-ending cider
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R E G U L A R S
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Trade Secrets FINE
FAST FOOD By Berrin Torolsan | 
| Most fast food is heavy, greasy and bad for your health.
Güllaç pancakes, by contrast, are beautiful organza-thin leaves, light as a feather and made from
the simplest ingredients. What’s more, they keep for an age. Berrin Torolsan sees the best
güllaç in the making
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Turkish Wine GRAPE EXPECTATIONS By Kevin
Gould | 
| Turkey’s new wines call for celebration. Kevin Gould meets a happy
wineseller
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Pus Connoisseur, Andrew Finkel on Issues of the Day and Restaurants and
Azize Ethem's Village Voices
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