Turkey has found itself with a new diplomatic purpose since Russia invaded Ukraine: the trusted mediator. After years of being seen as unreliable, even mercurial, by the West, and spats with neighbours, it is playing a key…
On the west side of Greece’s biggest island, classic Cretan hospitality and cuisine is being revived and reinvented by a new wave of young and passionate producers, chefs and hosts. We prepared our palates and set off to…
The Peninsula hospitality group’s new perch on the Bosphoros floats our boat. Monocle takes an early peek at how this vast new hotel is helping to transform Istanbul’s Karaköy neighbourhood.
The political will to reunite Cyprus has vanished. That’s why the isolated Turks are hoping for international recognition and building for tourists. Will they ever come?
There is nothing quite like browsing the shelves of curious independent boutiques to pick out one-of-a-kind gifts – or well-deserved treats for yourself – that are sure to bring joy. We’ve scoured some of our favourite…
A meeting of minds for workplace-furniture titan MillerKnoll is seeing the firm expanding ever more into employees’ homes. Is this the future of the office?
From a historical novel about identity in a time of plague to retro-Persian electro music secretly recorded in Istanbul, we survey the brightest of the cultural highlights to come.
Turkey has found itself with a new diplomatic purpose since Russia invaded Ukraine: the trusted mediator. After years of being seen as unreliable, even mercurial, by the West, and spats with neighbours, it is playing a key…