Istanbul’s Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmed I to rival the city’s Hagia Sophia. An Ottoman masterpiece, it was at one ...

Think of Turkish architecture and you might conjure images of ornate Ottoman art covering the walls of mosques from floor to ceiling. But take a stroll through any of the more modern, industrial ...

Can Atalay, Mücella Yapıcı, and Tayfun Kahraman are architects, scholars, and urban planners who were given 18-year prison sentences for criticizing the Turkish government’s response to the 2023 ...

Three jailed Turkish activists, architect Ayse Mucella Yapici, city planner Tayfun Kahraman, and lawyer Can Atalay, have been given the prestigious award for 'speaking out against social injustice'.

Odunpazari, a town in Turkey located roughly four hours southwest of Istanbul, is known largely for the historical timber market it once housed—the name itself translates to "wood market." As the ...

A note on history -- Seljuk architecture: stone and fantasy -- Decorative arts: between Byzantium and Central Asia -- Transition and innovation: 14th to 15th century -- 1453: from Constantinople to ...

Early on in Architecture and the Right to Heal, Esra Akcan tells a curious anecdote: “Of all the migration stories that I heard in passing from my grandparents while growing up in Turkey, the most ...