A new museum featuring Anatolian civilizations opened Friday at Istanbul Airport, as a culture and art area apart from serving as Turkey’s gateway to the world. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet ...

ISTANBUL,TURKEY: It's a busy afternoon at Istanbul Modern, Turkey's premier modern art museum, and the gallery is packed with visitors taking selfies or discussing the artworks in hushed tones. Some ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You've read the book? Now see the movie. Or, if the book happens to be Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence and you're in Istanbul, try ...

Converted into a mosque, Chora (Kariye) Museum’s frescoes and mosaics have been covered up with a white curtain. Dating back to the Byzantine period when it was built as a monastery, the museum is ...

Istanbul museums aim to attract more than 10 million local and international visitors this year, a senior Turkish Culture Ministry official said. “We think that there will be more than 10 million ...

Housed in an ornate former Ottoman palace on the shores of the Bosphorus Strait, the Çırağan Palace Kempinski Istanbul is the ultimate luxury hotel in Istanbul. It boasts an outdoor infinity pool, an ...

ISTANBUL — Jews are not exactly popular in Turkey these days, especially after US President Donald Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The move infuriated Turkish ...

The museums I visited in my childhood—not just in Istanbul but even in Paris, where I first went in 1959—were joyless places infused with the atmosphere of a government office. In keeping with their ...

A city-wide trend for new museums, exhibition spaces and art galleries displays where this rapidly changing city is going, rather than where it has been. Orhan Pamuk is not only Turkey's most famous ...