Acun Ilıcalı

Ali Acun Ilıcalı (born on May 29, 1969 in Edirne) is a Turkish entrepreneur, television personality, international producer, businessman and media mogul. Ilıcalı is also the founder of the ACUNMEDYA...

Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin (born on March 15, 1932 in Istanbul, died on June 25, 2006 in New York) is a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with many renowned artists of...

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

FEATURED IN CATEGORIES

MOST READ

Ziya Gökalp’s private letters in exile from Malta, Lemnos

Ziya Gökalp, the father of Turkism, a name coined by him for Turkish nationalism, was arrested by British occupying forces when he was debating an issue with his friends in the Professors’ Room of Darülfünun (Istanbul University) in January 1919....

An icon of Turkish aviation : Nuri Demirağ

Nuri Demirağ, who died on November 13, 1957, was an entrepreneur, industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Demirağ worked as a civil servant between 1911 and 1920, throughout World War I, when the Ottoman Empire dissolved and Istanbul was under the helm...

Crucial turning point in Naim Süleymanoğlu’s life

Turkish Olympic triple-gold medalist weightlifter, Naim Süleymanoğlu decided to move to Turkey in 1986 in response to the then-Bulgarian administration’s repression against ethnic Turks. This was a turning point in his life as well as for all ethnic Turks...

Süleyman Demirel, Türkiye’s most remarkable political survivor

In a career that spanned nearly half a century, Süleyman Demirel served seven times as Türkiye’s prime minister, dominating the nation’s politics when the country suffered from violence, economic stagnation and military rule. Süleyman Demirel was born on Nov. 1,...

Sezai Karakoç

Sezai Karakoç (born on Jan. 22, 1933 in Ergani, Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a Turkish poet, intellectual, political party leader, translator, and author. He has been described as an idealist intellectual with a worldview centered around Islam. Karakoç thinks and writes...

Quotes

“Most people believe in intelligence, I don’t; it’s effort that separates us from each other, I believe in work.”

Aziz Sancar

Scientist

“Hopelessness is such a swamp that if you fall, you will drown, hold on to your determination and see what you will become.”

Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Poet


"Life, is an empty film roll that is given to you. Try filling each frame perfectly."

Ara Güler

Photojournalist