
Çanakkale Ceramics, from Marbled Plates to Horse-Headed Jugs
Visitors to Çanakkale usually explain the city's name through the castles on the strait. Yet the first half of the name has to do with clay.
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Visitors to Çanakkale usually explain the city's name through the castles on the strait. Yet the first half of the name has to do with clay.

The Harbiye Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theatre season is coming to a close with concerts in November, and young people aged 18-24 can attend these concerts for free thanks to the "Koltuk Senin" program.

Curated by Marcus Graf, the exhibition features 38 works by 24 contemporary artists, exploring the concepts of happiness and utopia. It can be viewed at Taksim Art until January 10, 2027.

Most books on the history of philosophy start in the same place: on the Aegean coast, at Miletus, right beside Balat in today's Didim district of Aydın.

Anyone who climbs to the top row of the theatre at Miletus today and looks west sees no sea on the horizon. A flat plain stretches out ahead, covered with cotton fields, irrigation channels and reed beds.

At the north-eastern tip of Kırklareli, a few steps from the Bulgarian border, there is a forest whose floor is covered with water in winter.

On the stretch of the old Istanbul to Edirne road that crosses Kırklareli, three large stone bridges stand only a few kilometres apart.

South of Yalova, in a narrow valley that cuts into the wooded slope of the Samanlı Mountains, hot water rises from the ground.

Most people know Yalova for its hot springs, its gulf shore and its closeness to Istanbul.

Rising from the flat floor of the Kanak Su basin southeast of Sorgun, Alişar Höyük is today a quiet hill; fields stretch around it and there are no visitor facilities.

The quickest way to get to know Yozgat is to sit down at its table. The province lies in the middle of a high, wide steppe known as the Bozok plateau; its winters are long and harsh, its summers short and dry.

Safranbolu takes its name from a flower. For centuries the red stigmas of that flower dyed the town's dishes yellow and lent their scent to its sweets.

Anyone arriving in Safranbolu for the first time looks at the houses as if at a painting.

The "Sounds from the Depths" series continues at the Şerefiye Cistern with three Baroque music concerts from November 6th to 8th; violin and cello recitals will resonate within the cistern's unique acoustics, offering a captivating experience for the audience.

In Ordu, summer is lived far above the coast.

In Ordu, the table is the easiest way to read the city's geography.

When you step inside Konya's Seljuk buildings, what catches your eye first is often not the stone but the colour.

As you approach Konya by train or by road, the view from the window already tells you about the city's table.

Anyone who knows Trabzon only from the coast road has seen half the city at most.

In Trabzon the table is laid between the sea and the mountains.

Every year at the start of summer the sound of drums and shawms rises over Sarayiçi in the north of Edirne, and oiled wrestlers walk out onto the grassy field.

Anyone arriving in Edirne tends to ask the same first question: where do I eat liver? The question is fair, because the Edirne brochure of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism also names pan-fried liver as the first flavo.

When you step into the courtyard of Taşhan in Erzurum, you see rows of black, shining stones lined up in the shop windows.

Anyone who comes to Erzurum in winter remembers the cold first and the table second.