Industrial dance artist SISSY MISFIT’S CEHENNEM event series celebrates Turkey’s LGBTQIA+ communities in the face of persistent oppression
Oct 15, 2024
From Istanbul to Bucharest, Budapest, and Paris on the Venice Simplon Orient Express – the train where every night feels like fashion week
Feb 01, 2024
The Berlin-based DJ delivers a boisterous mix of influences to drive away those winter blues
Dec 16, 2022
With inspirations spanning conspiracy theories, doomsday preppers, biohacking, and self love, meet three talented graduates from Istanbul’s Moda Academy
Oct 19, 2021
‘We shouted until we lost our voices’
Mar 26, 2021
Cansu Yildiran’s series is a moving portrait of what freedom and possibility mean to the city’s refuge-seeking youth
Jun 19, 2019
Designer Koral Sagular’s wildly flamboyant collections have seen him labelled the enfant-terrible of Istanbul’s burgeoning fashion scene
Mar 22, 2019
‘It was like celebrating in a cage’
Jul 04, 2018
Çağdaş Erdoğan spent 161 days in jail and was accused of links to a terrorist group for his documentation of Istanbul’s hidden subcultures
Apr 13, 2018
Turkish authorities used tear gas, dogs and rubber bullets, detaining dozens of pride attendees after the event was banned for a third year
Jun 26, 2017
Despite a worrying rise in political violence and corruption, the voices of the country’s younger generation remain unheard
Jul 05, 2016
Following an airport bombing, the country has issued a complete media ban
Jun 29, 2016
Turkey’s military coup of 1980 closed most of the record labels and all pressing plants nationwide – this is one man’s mission to help the country dance again
Jun 23, 2016
This film is about the Berlin of today – its queer scene, how partying can be political, and the city’s close links to Istanbul
Mar 03, 2016
With sexed-up leather and satirical graphics, Les Benjamins gives the rest of the world a lesson in escaping sportswear cliches for AW15
Nov 25, 2015