Istanbul Travel Blog

Ipek Kuran is a Turkish freelance photographer who describes her journey with photography in the following lines: “I’ve been taking pictures for as long as I can remember. My photography and the way I approach my subjects evolved as I grew up, but one thing has remained the same and that’s...

Merve getting ready for her next piece Merve Ünsal is an artist/writer based in New York. Native of Istanbul, Turkey, she has recently finished an Internet-based art project questioning the nature of airports and airport security. She is the co-editor of BoltArt.net and is currently working on various...

This weeks “local picks” series features a 51 years old, former engineer, now a freelance career and life coach Burçin Gökçe. Ms. Gökçe is an engineer, who pursued an active and fulfilling career until her mid 40s. After 2005, she decided to take a respite from a life of 24/7 work and...

Turkish is not one of the globally learned languages like English or Spanish. There are a variety of very good blogs with a lot of valid and high quality feedback on Istanbul -from where to eat the best what and the trendiest things to do or the places to see-, but those are almost always in Turkish. Below...