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Issue 44, 2010

Classics with a Twist

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From the startling couture of Dice Kayek to the astonishing history of the Washington Embassy and its most famous inhabitants, the Ertegün family, via the groundbreaking photographs of John Henry Haynes. Meanwhile Ro Fitzgerald finds a sea of blooms on the Aegean coast, Griselda Warr relives 1960s Istanbul, Min Hogg takes the road from Kars to Van. Plus ethereal interior photography from Metehan Özcan; a feast of plums from Berrin Torolsan.

Articles online

  • Sea of Blooms

    Botanical travels along Turkey's southwest coast

    The magic of southwest Turkey can still catch you unawares, especially if you sail. Botanist Ro FitzGerald boards a fine ketch and plots a course for that stunningly beautiful corner where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean.

  • The Bottle-Top Mansion

    The Ertegün family and the story of Turkey's Washington Embassy

    An architectural extravaganza built in America’s Gilded Age for the man who invented the bottle top, the Everett House in Washington DC has a long and colourful connection with Turkey. Thomas Roueché charts its history. Photographs by Jürgen Frank.

  • On the Road to Ruins

    John Henry Haynes, Central Anatolia

    John Henry Haynes was the father of American archaeological photography. Many of his images are the only record of a vanished Anatolian heritage. On the centenary of his death, Robert Ousterhout pays tribute.

Inside the issue

Connoisseur

  1. Cover Story: A Passion for Fashion, the cutting-edge couture of Dice Kayek, by Nilgin Yusuf
  2. Arts Diary, by Thomas Roueché

Travel

  1. The Aegean: Sea of Blooms, Botanical travels in the coastal Southwest by Ro FitzGerald [available online]
  2. Central Anatolia: On the Road to Ruins, Anatolia in the 1880s, seen through the lens of John Henry Haynes, father of American archaeological photography, by Robert Ousterhout [available online]
  3. The Eastern Border: Queen of the Wild Frontier, Min Hogg journeys from Kars to Van

People & Places

  1. The Bottle-Top Mansion: The Ertegün family and the story of Turkey's Washington Embassy, by Thomas Roueché [available online]
  2. Adventures in Istanbul: Life in the Sixties, by Griselda Warr [available online]
  • Silent Witness: The ethereal photographs of Metehan Özcan, by Maureen Freely

    • Book Reviews

    1. Priceless Panoramas: An album of early-19th-century engravings of Istanbul goes under the hammer
    2. An Ottoman Traveller, by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim. Reviewed by Gerald MacLean. [available online]
    3. Kingdoms of Ruin, by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch. Reviewed by Rupert Scott. [available online]
    4. Ionia: A Quest, by Freya Stark. Reviewed by Rupert Scott. [available online]
    5. The Unknown Soldiers, by David Barchard. [available online]
    6. Essays on Ottoman Historians and Historiography, by Rhoads Murphey. Reviewed by Caroline Finkel. [available online]

    Food

    1. Plum Perfect: by Berrin Torolsan

    Regulars

    1. Private View: by Andrew Finkel
    2. Village Voices: Azize Ethem's Iznik diary
    3. Eating Out: Andrew Finkel's quest for the Perfect Watering Hole

    Highlights

    • Plum Perfect

      Only Kastamonu in the hinterland of the Black Sea, boasts the naked plum (üryani erik). In Daday, a valley just outside the town, a handful of villages have been encouraged to keep cultivating this plump, purplish-blue variety. This plum is delicious fresh, but it is chiefly in its dried form that it becomes a delicacy. When it is ripe and oozing with fragrance and sweetness, the delicate skin peels off easily to expose the amber-coloured flesh.

    • Adventures in Istanbul

      Life at the British consulate in Istanbul through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl.

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