Selected Works

The building that Atatürk dreamt of, where Turkey staged its first opera and where Reza Shah wept at the curtain call, has spent decades haunted by a different kind of drama: hundreds of paintings stolen, copied, distributed to bureaucrats and sold through criminal networks. A full account of one of Turkey's most remarkable institutions — and its most painful wound. Originally built in the 1920s as the headquarters of the Turkish Hearth (Türk Ocağı), this building is known as

Where Turkey's first state-licensed brothels once stood, archaeologists have unearthed an Ottoman bathhouse, a Roman theatre and a cache of medieval medallions — revealing a capital city far older, and far richer, than its grey modern reputation suggests. The restoration work on the walls of Ankara Castle was completed in 2025/Photo: Gökçen Tuncer Bentderesi is a neighbourhood that has carried the weight of history on its narrow shoulders for millennia — Hittite traders, Roma

For Turkey, paper has long been more than a commodity—it has been a symbol of the nation’s sovereignty and ambition. Yet today, rising import costs, shuttered factories, and fluctuating exchange rates threaten a once-proud industry. The first products of the paper factory established in Izmit in the mid-1930s / Photo: AA (Archive) Paper, which dramatically changed the form of communication when it was discovered thousands of years ago, has been at the center of debates for ma