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  • A quieter vision: the pastels of Liotard

    From Issue 3

    A storm one cold winter’s day in Rome brought Jean-Etienne Liotard to Istanbul. In a café where he took refuge from the rain, he met an Englishman, William Ponsonby, the future Earl of Bessborough, who invited the painter to join his party on a tour of the East. Liotard accepted, and they set sail from Naples on April 3, 1738.

  • The Whittalls in Winter

    From Issue 19

    Yolande Whittall looks back at 1930s life in Moda, across the strait from the domes and minarets of Istanbul. In Grandmother Whittall’s garden, where the snow fell deep and crisp, tobogganing parties were laid on for the children. In the kitchen Christmas puddings were stirred, and shooting parties provided the wherewithall for woodcock pie…

  • A bird in hand

    From Issue 7

    During the Turkish quail-hunting season, man’s best friend is the sparrowhawk. Roger Upton describes how these redoubtable birds help to bring home the bacon

  • ...and the prize goes to…

    From Issue 51

    John Carswell introduces the mesmerising entries in this year’s Ancient and Modern Prize for original research

  • Blooming Marvels

    From Issue 51

    For more than two centuries the Ottomans were obsessed by the elegance of the tulip and grew over 3,000 varieties, each characterised by almond-shaped petals drawn out into an exaggerated taper.

  • Modern Nomads

    From Issue 51

    With its hundreds of different shapes, pasta is today one of the most widely consumed and enjoyed of all the staples

  • Steppe Brothers

    From Issue 51

    The Sakip Sabanci Museum has just celebrated 600 years of diplomatic relations between Poland and Turkey. Jason Goodwin finds deep-rooted affinities between the two countries

  • Clerical Error

    From Issue 48

    The lethal mischief of Canon MacColl, by David Barchard

  • A Brave New World

    From Issue 48

    They were stigmatised and despised, and eventually they were closed down. But what would Turkey be today without the Village Institutes, its bravest educational revolution, and the young people they empowered? Maureen Freely tells the moving story of the institutes, the subject of a new book and exhibition

  • Nine Days in Crimea

    From Issue 49

    From the towers of Tatary to the tombs of Scythian kings, from clifftop citadels to an underground castle, from Balaklava to the beaches of the Tsarist Riviera, Crimea is a land to fall in love with, waiting to be enjoyed, not destroyed

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