Hannah Lucinda Smith
Istanbul musician Melike Sahin’s literary lyrics and stage presence have helped create a modern diva
Turkey’s music scene is so vibrant and eclectic that many Western stars are unheard of here. This homegrown dominance became even more unassailable in the mid-2010s when a period of political turbulence led to…
Monocle’s Quality of Life survey 2024: The 20 best places to live
Much of what defines a city’s quality of life can’t be quantified. We take a wider look to rank this year’s 20 best places to live.
And the winner is…
The latest edition of the Monocle Design Awards is here to celebrate the year’s most inspiring and ingenious products, models and structures – and the people who conceive them – as they set the…
Horn of plenty
The spirit and style of the old city abide in Balat, a boisterous district with an undiscovered vibe. Take a stroll through its lanes perched on the Golden Horn for tea and a symphony…
Making tracks
By plane, train and automobile, we take in the shifting allegiances within the Caucasus’s former-Soviet states.
Bathe in history
Visit a 16th-century hammam that has been sensitively revived for the modern age.
