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ISTANBUL — More than three decades after the last tenants moved out of Istanbul’s first Art Nouveau building, the doors of the long-neglected Botter Apartment were flung wide open again last month ...
News Turkey » Culture: Turkey in cultural diplomacy push to bring history home
Turkey’s is waging an increasingly assertive campaign to recover antiquities illegally taken abroad – Copyright AFP Ozan KOSE When an ancient bronze statue of ...
News Turkey » Culture: Turkey urges Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs
ANKARA, TurkeyANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister has urged Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs in China’s western Xinjiang province and allow them to ...
News Turkey » Culture: Turkey Targets Film Deemed “LGBT Propaganda”
Turkey’s Culture Ministry is demanding the return of its production funding for an award-winning independent film, a move its creators say sets a “dangerous precedent for the future of Turkish cinema.
News Turkey » Culture: Turkey’s graphic-novel culture blossoms in face of censorship
Turgut Yuksel’s hero in the graphic novel “Seven Deadly Days” is a young graphic designer whose dreary routine is instantly recognizable to a whole generation of Turkish white-collar workers. He works ...
News Turkey » Culture: Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic traditions even without overlapping at the site ...
News Turkey » Culture: Greece returns over 1,000 coins to Turkey in joint effort against antiquities smuggling
The two ministers held several talks regarding future cooperation between the two countries in the field of culture and the fight against antiquities trafficking.
News Turkey » Culture: Turkey urges Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs
FILE - Protesters chant slogans as they hold posters and pictures of victims during a protest against China's brutal crackdown on ethnic group Uyghurs, in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, ...
News Turkey » Culture: Turkey in cultural diplomacy push to bring history home
Turkey's is waging an increasingly assertive campaign to recover antiquities illegally taken abroad — Ozan KOSE When an ancient bronze statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius landed back on Turkish ...