When Syrian refugee Nada came to Istanbul four years ago, she soon found there was one thing she missed more than any other. “When I arrived, I couldn’t find any Arabic books. I didn’t bring any with ...

The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation located in Istanbul bears witness to 150 years of the women’s movement in Turkey, providing a new perspective to the country’s history. In a ...

Istanbul – a city that never sleeps – boasts Turkey’s first and only 24/7 open library with some bibliophiles traveling almost 60 kilometers to visit in the run-up to midnight. One of the first ...

“Look, what beautiful stables!” library director Salih Şahin says with a laugh, the sweep of his hand taking in a scene with nary a trace of hay or manure. Instead of stamping, whinnying steeds, the ...

As one of the oldest of its kind in Istanbul, the Beyazıt State Library sits on a vibrant city square close to to Beyazıt Mosque built by Sultan Beyazıt II and completed in 1506. The building was ...

Istanbul, a sprawling city of 15 million people, will soon open its doors to the country's largest public library. The historic Rami Artillery Quarters, built in the 1770s in Eyup district on the ...

Istanbul, a sprawling city of 15 million people, will soon open its doors to the country's largest public library. The historic Rami Artillery Quarters, built in the 1770s in Eyup district on the ...

For decades after the Rami barracks stopped serving their military function in the 1960s, fate seemed to have served the historic Istanbul landmark a cruel hand. In the 1980s, the building complex in ...

Updating and fine-tuning the oldest and largest library in Istanbul is not a project for the faint hearted, but Turkish international firm Tabanlioglu Architects rose to the occasion, embarking on the ...

Istanbul: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister on Sunday opened the library of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) ...