 Cover of issue 32 | |
| Editor | John Scott |
|---|---|
| Categories | Culture, Travel, Design, Style |
| Frequency | 3/year |
| Publisher | Berrin Torolsan |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Country | Turkey |
| Based in | London, UK, and Istanbul |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.cornucopia.net |
| ISSN | 1301-8175 |
Cornucopia is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom and Turkey.
Cornucopia was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English language magazine that concerns Turkish culture. The magazine has a broad scope that covers Turkey's heritage (prehistoric, Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican and that of the Turkic peoples.[ citation needed ]
The magazine also documents recent auctions and exhibitions of Turkish Art and Islamic art around the world. It has a large books section with reviews by prominent contributors.[ citation needed ]
Cornucopia also carries regular features on food, restaurants and life in Turkey by Berrin Torolsan, Andrew Finkel and Azize Ethem respectively.[ citation needed ]
Notably, Cornucopia has brought publicity to some of Turkey's threatened heritage.
In both cases this is the only photographic record in print.
Abdulmejid II was the last Ottoman caliph, the only caliph of the Republic of Turkey, and head of the Osmanoğlu family from 1926 to 1944. As opposed to previous caliphs, he used the title Halîfe-i Müslimîn, instead of Emîrü'l-Mü'minîn.
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
Ortaköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 9,423 (2022). It is on the European shore of the Bosphorus. it was originally a small fishing village, known in Greek as Agios Fokas in the Byzantine period and then as Mesachorion.
Andrew James Alexander Mango was a British BBC employee and author.
Ayran, doogh, dhallë, daw, shaneena, xynogala or tan is a cold savory yogurt-based beverage of Turco-Mongolian origin, popular across Central Asia, West Asia, Southeastern Europe, North Asia and Eastern Europe. The principal ingredients are yogurt, water and salt. Herbs such as mint may be optionally added. Some varieties are carbonated. Ayran is notably quite popular in Iran.
Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople, is the largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the most populous European city and the world's 15th-largest city.
Perihan Mağden is a Turkish writer. She was a columnist for the newspaper Taraf. She was tried and acquitted for calling for opening the possibility of conscientious objection to mandatory military service in Turkey.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.
Maureen Deidre Freely FRSL is an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme since 1996.
Anastasia M. Ashman is an American author, a digital strategist, and co-founder of global personal branding startup GlobalNiche.net.
Sabahattin Ali was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
Today's Zaman was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey. Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily Zaman.Today's Zaman included domestic and international coverage, and regularly published topical supplements. Its contributors included cartoonist Cem Kızıltuğ.
Ergenekon was the name given to an alleged clandestine, secular ultra-nationalist organization in Turkey with possible ties to members of the country's military and security forces. The would-be group, named after Ergenekon, a mythical place located in the inaccessible valleys of the Altay Mountains, was accused of terrorism in Turkey.
Ergenekon is a founding myth of Turkic and Mongolic peoples.
The New Turkey: The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe is a 2005 Granta Books publication by BBC World Affairs Correspondent Chris Morris which examines the potential and the problems of the far-reaching political and economic reforms being undertaken in what the author describes as a second revolution in Turkey.
Milet Publishing is a London publishing company that specialises in dictionaries and dual-language children’s literature.
The Imam's Army is a book by Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık on the life and work of Fethullah Gülen and his Gülen movement. Şık was detained in March 2011, before the book was published, and the draft book was seized by the government and banned, claiming it was an "illegal organizational document" of the secret organization Ergenekon. Şık was detained pending trial, being eventually released pending trial in March 2012. In the interim, in an act of anti-censorship defiance, a version of the book was released in November 2011 under the name 000Kitap (000Book), edited by 125 journalists, activists and academics, and published by Postacı Publishing House.
Limak Holding A.S. is a Turkish conglomerate, with major interests in construction, energy, cement, and tourism. Its assets include the Limak Cement and Limak Energy companies and the Limak Tourism Group. In 2012, it had around $260m revenue from construction.
Josephine Powell was an American photographer, traveller, and a collector of Anatolian ethnographic objects and textiles.
Tezer Özlü was a Turkish writer.
