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Issue 54, June 2016

Dive into Summer

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Travels with my art: photographer Brian McKee escapes to Van. Istanbul secrets: Alice Greenway swims by; Caroline Finkel walks the long way; Andrew Byfield on the flora; the Sultan’s Bosphorus pavilion. Rosamond E Mack asks where all the Bellinis went; Francis Russell has Christmas in ruins. Norman Stone suggests Enver Pasha’s last words. Grand new tomes on Iznik, dazzling Ottoman jewellery and tirit, succulent, sweet and savoury.

Highlights

  • Going with the Flow

    Alice Greenway went to Istanbul to study Turkish and learnt to love swimming in the Bosphorus while she was at it

  • Ceramic Dynamics

    Two weighty tomes on the glories of Iznik pottery. Tim Stanley reviews the magnificent new Iznik book cataloguing the stupendous Ömer Koç Collection and a new study of Iznik’s Damascus offshoot.


  • Christmas in ruins

    Last Christmas, the art historian Francis Russell escaped the festivities for a hectic week revisiting the Aegean’s most fascinating historic sites, in readiness for a new, enlarged edition of his guide ‘Places in Turkey: A Pocket Grand Tour’. Here is his diary of an action-packed week


  • Beauty and the East

    The fine art photographer Brian McKee left Istanbul last July to explore the fabled sights of eastern Turkey. Renting a flat in the city of Van, he pored over a weighty survey by the scholar TA Sinclair and followed in his footsteps for 3,000 magnificent kilometres, around Lake Van, and north as far as the old Iron Curtain


  • Bread of Heaven

    Oozing delicious juices, irresistibly moreish, the ‘tirit’ covers a range of traditional Turkish soups and stews, both savoury and sweet, with slices of bread at their heart. Berrin Torolsan serves up the ultimate in comfort food

  • On the Threshold of a Dream: Küçüksu Kasrı

    Visitors arriving by water at the sultans’ pavilion of Küçüksu Kasrı could scarcely believe their eyes. As the gates on the Bosphorus swung open, they entered a world of head-turning theatricality, beauty and embellishment – a Dolmabahçe Palace in miniature that charmed a prince. By Berrin Torolsan. Interior photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg



  • A World Beyond the Walls

    Istanbul, straddling two continents and sandwiched between two seas, has a thrillingly varied flora which includes many plants seen nowhere else on the planet. Sadly, it is also critically endangered. Text and photographs by Andrew Byfield

Inside the issue

Books

  1. Wooing the Ottomans: Elizabethan England's designs on the Islamic world. [available online]
  2. Iznik to dream of: two weighty tomes on Iznik ceramics. Tim Stanley reviews the truly magnificent new catalogue of the Ömer Koç Iznik Collection and a new handsome volume on 'Damascus' Iznik [available online]
  3. Conquest and chaos: Eurasia's role in history. The Power of Love: new translations of two iconic Turkish novels. From Red Army conscript to CIA fixer: the enigmatic Rusi Nazar

Counterfact

  1. Enver Pasha's Fond Farewll
    The lost letter, by Norman Stone

Cookery

  1. Bread of Heaven
    Tirit – a sweet and savoury treat, by Berrin Torolsan
    [extract available online]

Regulars

  1. Private View by Andrew Finkel, [extract available online]
  2. Village Voices by Azize Ethem, Jazz by Emma Harper, Eating Out by Andrew Finkel, Letter from Anatolia by Roger Norman
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