Imagine Istanbul – travel, photography, news, films, book, ideas from Istanbul, Turkey
Once upon a time in Istanbul… There once was a musician in Turkey named Ahmet Kaya and his music was loved by everyone in the country. Now what I mean by everyone, was everyone. Be they left or right, conservative or modern, young and old, Turkish or Kurdish, he was loved by all. He sold [...]
Near the edge of the water where the Golden Horn meets the Bosphorus, in Eminönü, Istanbul stands the New Mosque or the Yeni Camii. If you stand on the Galata Bridge, you can see this lovely mosque – it is not the big one to the right of the skyline behind which the sun sets [...]
If life is a search for meaning and perfection, what is identity, how connected is Identity to the search of truly knowing oneself? Identity is a quest to know who you are, where you come from. It is the definition of the Self. You are defined by history and land of origin, genetics, family, language, [...]
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