“First Comic & Arts Festival in Istanbul” Istanbul News roundup…

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First Comic & Arts Festival in Istanbul

The Istanbul Comics & Art Festival (ICAF) will be held for the first time this year at the St. Joseph Social Club in the city’s Moda neighborhood

Governor claims Istanbul is ‘among safest cities in the world’

Hurriyet Daily News

Istanbul remains among the safest cities in the world, despite escalating regional risks and a series of terrorist attacks in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul .

Istanbul Atatürk Airport breaks a new record FTNnews.com (press release) Ataturk Airport thy tail Istanbul Atatürk Airport broke a new traffic record on Sunday, September 4, 2016. A total of 1,454 takeoffs and landings took

Refugee experience front and center at Istanbul Triennial

Forty artists will participate in the Third International Istanbul Triennial with works depicting the plight and experience of refugees

Historic Istanbul district by Bosphorus to get facelift

The historic Istanbul district of Üsküdar will receive a brand-new look thanks to a massive project to redesign a historic square by the Bosphorus, which is decorated with numbers of valuable Ottoman buildings and mosques

Changing times for Istanbul’s Beyoglu | DW News

MSN.com

For more DW news go to http://ift.tt/2bXZMH0 the terrorist attacks and coup attempt, visitors have stopped coming to the ..

 Clarinet masters in Istanbul for festival

Hurriyet Daily News

16 and 25 in Istanbul, centered on the theme “Istanbul is breathing.” … Çağrı said they organized the festival with the theme “Istanbul is breathing” for

Clarinet masters in Istanbul for festival

Hurriyet Daily News

The Fifth International Clarinet Festival will be held between Sept. 16 and 25 in Istanbul, centered on the theme “Istanbul is breathing.” The most

World philosophers to meet in Istanbul

Hurriyet Daily News

The International Institute of Philosophy (IIP) will hold its International Philosophy Days gathering in Istanbulthis year between Sept. 6 and Sept. 9

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“İstanbul’s alternative photography spots”… Istanbul news roundup…

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Pierre Loti hill (Photo: Kürşat Bayhan)

Today’s Zaman

İstanbul’s alternative photography spots

Today’s Zaman

Within the general panorama of Turkey, there’s little question that İstanbul occupies a special spot in people’s lenses. But the shots taken of İstanbul .

“I’ve Come and I’m Gone”: A Tribute to Istanbul’s Street Vendors

Istanbul Eats by admin

Metin Akdemir is a filmmaker based in Istanbul. In 2011 he made a short film about street vendors in the city. The film, “Ben Geldim Gidiyorum” (“I’ve Come and I’m Gone”), won several awards in Turkish and international film festivals, and we think it’s a very valuable piece of work that captures a side of Istanbul’s culture that is slowly disappearing. We caught up with Metin to talk about the film.

Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak: Istanbul, city of dreams and nightmares

The Guardian

In reality, there is no such thing as Istanbul. There are only Istanbuls – competing, clashing and somehow coexisting within the same congested space

Discovering a Family History in Istanbul

Global – Duke University

Professor Erdağ Göknar became a scholar of Middle Eastern and Turkish studies after tracing his own family history to Istanbul during World War I

11th German victim of Istanbul attack dies

Yahoo News

Berlin (AFP) – An 11th German victim has died of her injuries from a suicide bombing this month in the heart of Istanbul blamed on the Islamic State

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Former ECHR judge says “Long-term military curfews a human rights violation”

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Syrian children employed to produce fake life jackets in İzmir factory

Turkish police have seized over 1,200 unsafe life jackets destined for use by migrants trying to reach Greece by sea, in a raid on an underground workshop that used Syrian underage labor

Turkey: Defective Life Jackets Seized at Workshop

NYT > Turkey by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Turkish authorities seized more than 1,200 jackets that would have been sold to migrants and that were made of material that did not float.

Long-term military curfews a human rights violation, says former ECHR judge

Long-term military curfews constitute a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights, former European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judge Rıza Türmen has told daily Radikal, amid continued curfews in a number of towns in southeastern Turkey

Body of executed ASALA member taken from Turkey to France after 33 years

The body of Levon Ekmekjian, a member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) who was executed in Turkey in 1983, has been taken to France following an appeal from his family

Turkey warns US over ‘Kurdish corridor’ in Syria

The Turkish army has expressed concerns to the United States’ top military figure over Syrian Kurdish groups’ attempts to create a “Kurdish corridor” in northern Syria and change the demographic structure of the region to the advantage of Kurds

Turkey must withdraw ‘unauthorized’ forces in Iraq, Obama says

Turkey should wıthdraw any military forces in Iraq that are “not authorized by the Iraqi government,” U.S. President Barack Obama has told Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, according to the White House

Syrians show refugees’ economic potential in Turkey’s borderlands

Ankara has spent more than $8.5 billion on feeding and housing Syrian refugees since the start of the war, but has yet to introduce a policy to allow them to work legally

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