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Buy a digital subscription Go to the Digital EditionWhat on earth could have inspired Britain’s most celebrated photographer, Don McCullin, to leap from his hospital bed with 50 stitches around his eye and one thing on his mind? It was the sacred mountain of Nemrut Daği in eastern Anatolia. He and Barnaby Rogerson travel back in time, elated by the enduring power of Mithras, god of the sun
Two days after an Istanbul book launch, and still wearing the same blue linen suit, with the wind cutting like a knife of ice in the darkness just before dawn, I discovered for myself that Nemrut Dağı is one of the wonders of the ancient world. Don’s young wife, Catherine Fairweather, had walked all the way up, which left her looking more than usually radiant. But Don and I had cheated, accepting a lift in a jeep that took us almost to the summit. We were not alone. A group of welltravelled young Brazilians who’d had the forethought to wrap themselves in striped blankets, with glasses of Buck’s Fizz at the ready for toasting the sunrise, decorated the altar platform. They told me they were reminded of the heads on Easter Island, and the solemn mystery of Mayan and Incan shrines. I agreed that it was a truly numinous place…
Sweet but with a tang, boza is a favourite winter drink. Restorative, gently uplifting, it inspires mellow conversation and is a cornerstone of Istanbul life, while the nocturnal cry of its street-sellers, a not-quite-distant memory, is still the stuff of poetry. By Berrin Torolsan
Joachim Meyer, of Copenhagen’s David Collection, on the powerful aura of Islamic calligraphy
An exhibition in London reveals the Islamic art that captivated William Morris. By Thomas Roueché
She was the wife of the Sultan’s court painter and mother to four children. But Elisa Zonaro was also an artist in her own right, a pioneering female photographer in Abdülhamid II’s Istanbul. Philip Mansel celebrates a free-spirited trailblazer
The botanical artistry of Işık Güner, by Harriet Rix
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