The Daily Telegraph, Travel
Saturday February 16, 2008

Craig Brown: Istanbul with teenagers
Can culture ever be cool? Craig Brown takes his teenagers to Istanbul to find out.

Excerpt:
When all else fails, every generation enjoys a boat trip. On the strength of an article Issue 16 in the English-language Cornucopia ("Turkey for Connoisseurs") - surely one of the most intelligent and beautiful glossy magazines in the world - we set off on a 90-minute voyage to Büyükada, the farthest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It is a small, lush island with everything you could possibly need: a lovely old Norma Desmond of a seaside hotel, the Splendid Palas; rides all the way around in a fancy horse-drawn cart; beautiful clapboard houses; and even an unexpected historical residence - the house where Leon Trotsky lived in luxurious exile between 1932 and 1934.

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Craig Brown stayed at the Novotel (00 90 212 414 3600, www.novotel.com; double rooms from £66 a night) and the Swissôtel Bosporus (00 90 212 326 1100, www.swissotel.com; double b & b from £186 a night).

British Airways (0870 850 9850, www.ba.com), Turkish Airlines (020 7766 9300, www.turkishairlines.com) and EasyJet (0905 821 0905 - premium-rate, www.easyjet.com) all fly to Istanbul from Britain.

The Daily Telegraph, Travel
Saturday August 28th 2010

Gill Charlton
Touring Eastern Turkey

Marisa Bennett, Canterbury, writes
We love everything about Turkey: the people, the food, the sense of exploring a cultural crossroads. We have explored western Anatolia and now we would like to venture east. But is it safe? Many of the cultural sites we want to visit are in remote places near the border with Georgia, Iraq and Iran. Do any companies offer tours?

Gill Charlton replies
I would travel with Mike Belton, a British guide who has lived in Turkey for 16 years, speaks the language fluently and has a passion for both the landscape and the cultural treasures of eastern Anatolia....

If you love Turkey you should subscribe to Cornucopia (01450 379933; www.cornucopia.net), which has wonderful photo-essays on the country's cultural riches. It costs £24 a year for three beautifully produced issues.

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'Focused on celebrating and chronicling all things Ottoman-inspired and influenced, Cornucopia is a cross between World of Interiors and National Geographic, with a gentle Turkic twist.

I've been trying to collect all the missing back issues for years now and still have some annoying gaps in my neatly arranged stacks.'

Tyler Brülé, The Financial Times

" ...perhaps one of the best periodicals in the world" Tyler Brülé FT 5 Dec 2009

www.nationalgeographic.com

Touted as the "Magazine for Connoisseurs of Turkey," Cornucopia offers insight into the many cultures, people, and places, dating back to the ancient Ottoman Empire through modern day Turkey. Although not all articles can be found online, you can get a taste of everything Cornucopia has to offer with its vivid pictures and sophisticated articles.

Browse back issues of Cornucopia

Turkish Delight
What's the one magazine - besides her own - that World of Interiors founding editor Min Hogg can't live without?
Cornucopia, an Istanbul-published English-language bible of all things Ottoman, from travel to food and design.
"It arrives and I drop everything," she says. "The Turkish Empire was once so wonderfully big - India, Persia, Central Asia, Mongolia. Cornucopia brings to life all these places and does so in an intelligent, beautiful way."

Sophy Roberts
Editor at large, Departures

Maureen Freely
The Guardian Review June 14th 2008

Finally, no one should go to Turkey without reading at least a few issues of Cornucopia (cornucopia.net), which has to be one of the most beautiful magazines in the world. Published here, its remit is Turkey - not its sordid politics, but its art, architecture, history and antiquities.
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Crossing the world between covers
Travis Elborough on Cornucopia
Saturday January 19, 2008
The Guardian

Cornucopia: Turkey for Connoisseurs, Issue 38, vol 6 (three issues, £24)

There are, as Christian Tyler notes here in a piece headed "What is a Turk", some 135 million people in the world who speak in a Turkic language, living in such diverse corners of the globe as eastern Siberia, the Balkans, Frankfurt and London's Finsbury Park. Although strongly tilted to the luxury hotel lobby market (as the ads and a directory of their favourite luxury hotels in Turkey confirms) and boasting pages with the sheen of baklava and sumptuous full colour photography throughout (and the photos, many stunning, do have the edge over the words in amount of space occupied), Cornucopia, nevertheless, doesn't skimp on writing of quality either.

In this issue there is a considered review of the fall-out from last summer's elections, and in a range of features on the ancient Silk Road city of Bursa, an overview of the life of one of the fathers of modern Turkey, Ahmed Vefik Pasha. A rather undiplomatic Ottoman diplomat famed for his "impetuous and sarcastic speech", Ahmed Vefik was a Turkish patriot and Europhile with a scholarly mind and a love of Dickens and Gibbon, who was involved with the restoration of Bursa after an earthquake in 1855 and eventually served as prime minister in 1882 - but for just three days. The briefness of his tenure is attributed to an unwillingness or inability to curb his tongue.

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