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Start-up community: Shared ambition

18 August 2016

In Istanbul, creative types are banding together in a new kind of shared working space. By pooling their skills and industry, these entrepreneurs are building a strong community and a hopeful future to counteract the city’s…

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Tough talks: TRT World

18 April 2016

The Istanbul-based news channel’s uphill battle in a country where media freedom hangs in the balance.

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Making tracks

13 September 2018

Nothing epitomised the golden age of travel like the Orient Express. But with the venerable service now existing only as an upscale tourist attraction, anyone wanting to savour its classic itinerary has to catch a hotchp…

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The interview series 2014/15 part 03

20 November 2014

Amid the many challenges facing Turkey’s economy – geopolitical tension, corruption and the urgent need for infrastructure spend – the country’s cool-headed finance minister remains ebullient.

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Under the influence

26 September 2024

In the bustling centre of this diverse city, multidiscplinary design studios and visionary talents are creating new buildings and spaces with soul.

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Bosphorous blues

20 August 2020

A decade ago Istanbul was seen as an open, liberal city where culture still came together with ease. But now people are facing tougher times.

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Cihangir

17 August 2007

The Romans, Byzantines and the Ottomans all recognised the importance of Istanbul as a strategic gateway between the West and the East. Oddly occidental and strikingly Asian, the city is surprising its visitors with a new…

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Ara Güler

17 January 2013

Turkish photographer Ara Güler has always found eating a bit of a distraction but he found time to sit down for a meal with Monocle.

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Healthy trade

17 November 2016

Bulent Eczacibasi heads the industrial group with a focus on pharmaceuticals that bears his family name – and he’s been creative to maintain success. In London for the Design Biennial, he tells us why patronage is key to…

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8. There goes the neighbourhood

21 May 2020

Across garden fences and from open front doors, the new community connections being forged during lockdown must endure.

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On the right page

19 April 2012

Turks are once again embracing their historic brands. It’s good news for diary maker Ece Ajandasi, looking to recreate the dizzy heights it reached in the 1980s.

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Monocle on Culture - Arabic Science Fiction and Contemporary Istanbul

17 November 2014

Author Hassan Abdulrazzak talks Arabic science fiction, we take the temperature of Contemporary Istanbul and head to a literary festival in Rio. Plus we check out a new exhibition in London that explores the city of Lagos…

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The opener

18 May 2017

For this special mobility edition we see how Istanbul is boosting footfall with a cup of the black stuff, get our game on at airports and investigate transportation by rope in our global news round-up.

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Diplomacy

18 May 2017

Taiwan's representative to the UK on his country's relationship with China, Roma culture in the German capital and the man in the middle of Greek-Turkish spats.

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Monocle on Sunday - Live from London

7 May 2023

Emma Nelson, Latika Bourke and John Everard on the weekend\'s biggest talking points. We also speak to Monocle’s Hannah Lucinda Smith in Istanbul and our Balkan correspondent Guy De Launey.

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Monocle on Sunday - Live from London

23 October 2022

Emma Nelson, Charles Hecker and Terry Stiastny unpack the weekend’s biggest talking points. Plus, Tyler Brûlé in Athens, Hannah Lucinda Smith in Istanbul and Monocle 24’s Andrew Mueller with a Eurovision update.