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Yeni Şükran; a Second Class Hotel

Yeni Şükran, Hacı Hasan back then, started to serve as a hotel in the beginning of the 20th century and it is the one and such an only example of Kemeraltı hotels that has still functions today...
May Day 2017

The 1st of May 2017 has been celebrated all over Turkey.
Dest-i Izdivac, a Marriage TV Show

Dest-i Izdivac, the first marriage programme on TV, was aired in 2007 on Flash TV for the first time...
GAYAN

The Gayan project is tracing the Armenian memory from 1915 until today in Turkey and Armenia as well as at the genocide’s significant stations in the Middle East: Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iran and Jordan.
Protests after the Constitutional Referendum

According to unofficial numbers, 51.4 % of the votes have been in favor of a constitutional reform. After the news about unsealed ballots that have been counted started to spread, people all over Turkey took to the streets in order to protest the controversial result.
After The Constitutional Referendum

The Constitutional Referendum’s results have been announced. According to unofficial numbers, 51.3 % of the votes have been in favor of a constitutional reform, whereas 48.7% have been against it.
Constitutional Referendum 2017

‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns for the upcoming constitutional referendum on the 16th of April 2017 in Turkey
Profile Pictures

The children, who had to leave Syria at the beginning of the Civil War, have grown into adolescents in Turkey. A majority of these teenagers have been students back in Syria, whereas in Turkey they have been deprived of their right to education...
ÊZÎDXAN

The most wrong knowledge about this religion is that Êzîdîs worship of evil spirit. In fact, Êzîdîs do not worship of evil spirit, but only God. Being Kurds and non-Muslims, Êzîdîs have suffered greatly from both ethnic and religious persecuation throughout history....
A STORY OF ABANDONMENT: MADEN

Copper deposits which lend its name to Maden District of Elazığ have been known as the oldest and the richest deposits in the world. These copper deposits have been processed by many civilisations throughout history. After 1938,...
Seasonal Migration

The Southern Kurtalan Train Express route came into service in 1944 and, starting from Kurtalan, stops in Diyarbakır, Malatya, Sivas, Kayseri and Ankara. This train route is mostly used by seasonal workers that are living in east Turkey, but are working on the western part of the country from spring to fall for...
FACES

Portraits From Coup Protest
Protest Coup Attempt

People gathered Bosphorus Bridge to react failed military coup attempt in Turkey.
MILITARY COUP ATTEMPT IN TURKEY

A group of the Turkish army claimed to be in charge of the country by sending an email to journalists. The group accused the government of eroding Turkey’s secular traditions.People gathered at the Beylerbeyi entrance of the bosphorus bridge, which was blocked by turkish soldiers, to protest against the military coup
TİGRİS ( DİCLE)

Dijle meaning running water is globally known as Tigris.With its 523 km length of run in Turkey, Dijle River being the second biggest river of Turkey rises from Hazal Lake and joining Firat River covers around 1840 km until it flows into the Persian Gulf in Shatt al-Arab region....
DISPLACED - A Syrian Journey from Turkey to Germany

'Since the war started, I feel that I am not in life; I just live because I have to live. I have to take care of my children. Of course I was so glad that I made it. I brought my children here safely and they will build their career. I don't have any wishes for myself. Just my wish is that… to be calm. But I still have many pains in my heart. Because children… not just in Syria, everywhere I see children suffer...'
Trabzon Idmanocagi Women’s Football Team

The Trabzon Idmanocagi women’s football team was founded in the season of 2007-2008 and moved up to Turkey’s first division in the season of 2009-2010.
Tracing Voices

the voice has been born out of the water, out of the bird, out of lullabies, out of mothers’ lullabies, out of women’s lullabies; it is nature’s voice... it is the voice of the mountain, the voice of the sea...
A Family Portrait

With Istanbul based Armenian Yetvart Tomasyan’s own words, ‘We are able to successfully hide and protect the ties with our past through the medium of photography...
Refugees in Berlin

In the course of the European-wide refugee crisis, Germany has been confronted with an unexpected amount of 1.091.894 registered asylum seekers in the year of 2015...
REFUGEE CAMPS FOR SYRIAN PEOPLE

Syrians has started to take refuge in Turkey in April 2011 and the first camp was set up in Yayladağı-Hatay on 1 May 2015. As of 15 September 2015, the number of Syrians living in Turkey is 2.027.981. Besides, 200.000 Iraqi who fled the war in their countries, are being hosted in Turkey.
Million Dollar View, Urban Transformation

NarPhotos photographers documented the surrounding neighbourhood of Istanbul between January 2012 and March 2013...

STORIES

Dest-i Izdivac, a Marriage TV Show

Dest-i Izdivac, the first marriage programme on TV, was aired in 2007 on Flash TV for the first time... ...

SPOT NEWS

May Day 2017

The 1st of May 2017 has been celebrated all over Turkey. ...

Darkness Nearby

Diyarbakır Prison No. 5, the largest prison of the region has been built after the September 12, 1980 military coup and used as a Martial Law Military Prison between 1980 and 1988. We listen to three women who has witnessed those times. Fatma, living close to the prison; Ayse who had been taken into cus......