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Issue 68, July 2025

Angora’s Mesmerising Beauty

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Anatolian revelations: from Ankara’s sleekest animals to medieval Mardin, a city on the faultline of history, and Latmos, the Aegean’s forgotten Holy Mountain… plus the special secret of Turkish ice cream, music’s wonder woman Gülsin Onay and memories of the indomitable Patricia Daunt

Highlights

  • One Day in Istanbul

    Known as the ‘Turkish Henri Cartier-Bresson’, Ara Güler roamed the streets, creating gritty portraits of everyday life

  • Finding Peace in the Syrian Desert

    Visitors who climb the long flight of rock-hewn stairs to the monastery of Mar Musa al-Habashi in the Syrian Desert, whatever their faith, will find a place of serenity, a welcome, and frescoes to dazzle them


  • Unlikely Stories

    Istanbul’s mystique has long captivated writers, but, as an exhibition reveals, not all care to visit. Maureen Freely gives us chapter and verse


  • Totally Chilled

    Ice cream is the feel-good food like no other, imbued with memories of the sunny days of childhood. But Turkish ice cream is especially delicious, thanks to a unique ingredient. Berrin Torolsan has the scoop


  • Mardin: City of Labyrinths

    Mardin can only be compared to such cities as Granada and Fez, filled with the palaces of merchants, studded with university colleges, guarded by mountains and fed by their springs

  • The Orient Excess

    A ‘Constantinople’ spectacular in Victorian London, by Andrew Finkel



  • Dreams of Timeless Beauty

    The mountain where Endymion still sleeps, by Ross Atabey and Rupert Scott

  • The History Boy

    Faik Şenol’s camera transports Clara Robins back to Thirties Istanbul


  • Mirror or Mirage?

    The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia has claimed its second Osman Hamdi Bey painting. The curator Lucien de Guise reflects on the enduring fascination of the Ottoman world, real and imagined


  • Magical Realism

    Martyn Rix on a new wave of botanical illustrators that is transforming a nation’s appreciation of nature every species and producing paintings of selected species for publication


  • Palatable palettes

    A show on food in art at the İşbank Museum of Painting and Sculpture is a veritable remembrance of times past

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