Posts Tagged ‘Ottoman Empire’
monolithic: visual history of istanbul
June 15th, 2010 by lifeproof
Since Istanbul is the European Capital of Culture of 2010, there are numerous cultural, musical and artistic events going on around the city and it is crowded with many cosmopolitans from all around the world. Haydarpaşa Train Station was built on water between 1906 – 1908 by German architects and was presented as a gift [...]
Tags: Ahmet Türkoğlu, Alican Aktürk, Baran Gülerşen, Byzantine Empire, Can Dinlenmiş, Candaş Şişman, Deniz Kader, Efor Production, Erdem Dilbaz, European Capital of Culture of 2010, Gökhan Kurtuluş, Gökhan Uzun, Görkem Şen, Haydarpaşa Train Station, Human Landscapes from My Country, Istanbul, Kaiser Willem II, Latin Empire, Lokman Doğmuş, monolithic, Murat Durusoy, Mustafa Nurdoğdu, Nazım Hikmet Ran, Ottoman Empire, projection mapping, Refik Anadol, Roman Empire, Sinevizyon, Tolga Dizmen, Ümit Özdemir, Visio – Vox, Yakup Çetinkaya, yekpare
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Back to the Ottomans
December 2nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Engin Öztekin, a young emerging illustrator and graphic artist, is launching his first personal exhibition, Gayri Meşrutiyet, at Milk Gallery tomorrow. The exhibition will be displayed until December 27th. This exhibition of the artist includes humorous and ironic drawings and illustrations that depict the Ottoman era. Visitors may have the chance to purchase limited pins [...]
Tags: art, Engin Öztekin, Gayri Meşrutiyet, graphic art, graphic artist, illustrator, Istanbul, Milk Gallery, Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Posted in PinPoint, Reminder
Displacement of Historical Artifacts: Altar of Zeus
September 27th, 2009 by lifeproof
Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, Germany hosts a great deal of ancient history. But, does that history belong to Berlin? Not at all. As I have said that I had friends over New York to visit Turkey. A group of them has been to Pergamon [in today's Turkish: Bergama] and the region around there visiting both the [...]
Tags: American Museum of Natural History, Anatolia, Ancient Greece, Babylon, Bergama, Berlin, Carl Humann, German Empire, Germany, Greek Mythology, Ishtar Gate, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Market Gate of Miletus, New York, New York City, Ottoman Empire, Pergamon, Pergamon Altar, Pergamonmuseum, Turkey, Turkish, Turkish Republic, wonders of the world, Zeus Altar
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PinPoint, PoliTickles
The Kurdish Solution
August 28th, 2009 by lifeproof
Turkey, the country, has left everything aside and is debating and arguing on if and how the Kurdish minority problem may be solved for a month or so. The Kurdish problem has been a long standing problem, which has also been an issue in the last terms of the Ottoman Empire. It has been ignored [...]
Tags: Europe, European Union, Kurdish initiative, Kurdish solution, Kurdistan, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, natural gas, oil, Ottoman Empire, Russia, the Middle East, Turkey, Turkish Republic
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles