We strongly reject the aggravated life sentence handed down by the court against Osman Kavala, the founder and Chair of the Executive Board of Anadolu Kültür, following his unlawful detention of over four and a half years, as well as 18-year-prison sentences and arrest orders issued against ex- and current members of Anadolu Kültür’s Executive…

2022 – 2023 From 119 applications to this year’s Berlin Senate Residency Program, which promotes cultural exchange and supports the artistic development of professional artists as a component of the active sister city relations between Berlin and Istanbul, the selecting jury from Istanbul (Asena Günal, Aslı Çetinkaya, Banu Karaca, Kristina Kramer and Meriç Öner) has…

March – May 2022 Alexandru Mihai Budeș Alexandru Mihai Budeș is primarily a storyteller. Touching biographical elements, he weaves together fact, history, mythology, observations and parallels drawn between the cultures encountered, elements of literature and conversations, human feelings, and states of mind – which interrogate different aspects of common and personal reality, consciousness, and subconsciousness….

We were equally shocked and saddened to learn about the detention of our chairman and colleague, Osman Kavala. We are still trying to process the news of his arrest and what that means for our community and what it says about the current environment in which we must operate. In all of our collaborations and…