Notes on Istanbul, books and research. A document, a building or a question in each post.
This report from the Italian news agency ANSA records the publication of Boğaziçi’nin Tarih Atlası in Italian, as Il Bosforo: Una storia illustrata, after five Turkish editions. The book was presented at the Palazzo di Venezia in Beyoğlu with a programme of some splendour, which is why the news found its place among diplomatic items.
Doğan Hızlan, the doyen of our literary and critical world, gave his Hürriyet column today to Boğaziçi’nin Tarih Atlası. He sets out from a familiar yet searching question: we keep going down to the Bosphorus, we sit by its water and listen to its wind. But how well do we really know this waterway?
Nebahat Koç of the newspaper Sabah had first read the book with great attention. She then assembled, with care, ten fine details distilled from Boğaziçi’nin Tarih Atlası. Our conversation around them set out from the route the book follows along the shore and went on to buildings, to people and to changes over time.