Author: Emrah Güler
Place: Turkey
Date: 29 July 2011

Ankara has been home to some of the most original and creative street art for over a year. One spring morning in 2010, Ankara residents awoke to find that one of the major road signs in the busiest junction of the city had been altered: the sign directing the traffic to Gazi Osman Paşa was replaced with Tosun Paşa, the cult leading character of a 1970s comedy film.

Author: Emrah Güler
Place: Turkey
Date: 19 July 2011

Public spaces and streets have not traditionally been places for artistic expression in Turkey. The thousands of sculptures adorning the city centres have mostly been reserved for figures of historical or ideological importance. That’s why it was a first when the international project My City, run by the British Council Turkey, invited artists from Europe to stay in five Turkish cities and create public artworks.

Author: Emrah Güler
Place: Turkey
Date: 30 June 2011

Despite being home to some of the most prominent writers, musicians and artists in Turkey, the capital city of Ankara has never been seen as Turkey’s capital of culture. Traditionally, most artists have headed to Istanbul.

Author: Umut Egitimci
Place: Turkey
Date: 15 January 2011

While Turkey has traditionally been a centre for the production of clothes, leaving design to more established fashion capitals such as London, Paris and Milan, Istanbul is now developing an impressive reputation as the new design metropolis...

Author: Nazli Demiroz
Place: Turkey
Date: 28 August 2009 Turkey's megalopolis Istanbul recently hosted a significant event called the Istanbul Design Weekend 2009 (IDW), organized by the Dream Design Factory and Italian Design Partners.Experts, art professors, opinion leaders, and renowned designers from Turkey, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco and Israel gathered at this four-day event on June18-21. This year’s theme “Mediterranean Design between Present and Future” grabbed the attention of design enthusiasts with impressive exhibitions, installations and new products.