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Issue 70, Summer 2026

Outpost of Peace

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Rupert Scott falls for an Ottoman mansion on the Datça Peninsula saved from oblivion. Don McCullin and Barnaby Rogerson explore Roman Rough Cilicia; Martyn and Alison Rix chronicle the legacy of Anatolia’s flora in Western gardens. Plus the Lion of Leighton House, garlic the super bulb, Olga the irrepressible Orientalist, and exhibitions from Meşher to the Met.

Highlights

  • Velvet and Steel

    Doyenne of curators, Nazan Ölçer, by Andrew Finkel

  • A Journey to Rough Cilicia

    Barnaby Rogerson and the photographer Don McCullin set out from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, for Rough Cilicia


  • The Flowering of Europe

    Martyn and Alison Rix chronicle an extraordinary legacy


  • Back from the Brink

    This grand mansion, an Ottoman outpost on the remote southern peninsula of Datça, was rotting away when it was rescued by an enterprising new owner. It has now regained every inch of its early-19th-century charm. By Rupert Scott. Photographs by Monica Fritz


  • Seeing the Light

    A new exhibition turns the limelight on Halil Pasha, pioneer of Turkish impressionism. By Ayla Jean Yackley

Inside the issue

People and Places

  1. Velvet and Steel Nazan Ölçer, by Andrew Finkel. Photographs by Monica Fritz and Ara Güler (1918–2018) [extract available online]
  2. A Journey to Rough Cilicia South from Ankara in the footsteps of Caesars with Don McCullin, by Barnaby Rogerson. Photographs by Don McCullin [extract available online]
  3. The Flowering of Europe How Anatolian plants became a major feature in Western gardens [extract available online]
  4. Back from the Brink The House of the Tuhfezades, by Rupert Scott. Photographs by Monica Fritz [extract available online]
  5. The Lion of Leighton House

Connoisseur

  1. Seeing the Light [extract available online]
  2. Out of the Shadows [extract available online]
  3. Around the World Exhibitions in Istanbul, London, Oxford and New York
  4. Cut to Cannes [extract available online]

Books

  1. Rørbye & Bindesbøll, Reviewed by . [available online]
  2. Fine Bindings from the Ömer Koç Library, Reviewed by Sheila Markham. [available online]
  3. Olga de Lebedeff, Reviewed by

    Angela Roome

    .     [available online]
  4. Tiny guide with wide horizons [extract available online]

Cookery

  1. The Garlic Crush, by Berrin Torolsan. [extract available online]

From Our Correspondents

  1. Private View: The curious recluse Baker Street regulars and The Sultan who wouldn't say cheese, by Andrew Finkel.
  2. Man about town, by Thomas Roueché. [available online]

Postscript

  1. An irreplaceable genius A fond tribute to the late İlber Ortaylı Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg [extract available online]
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