ISTANBUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and ...

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So rich is Istanbul in historic buildings of every stripe, especially Byzantine churches and colonnaded cisterns, Ottoman ...

The 53rd Istanbul Music Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), will take place from June ...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY: View of the Turkish Railways Museum Sirkeci train station, near the terminus of the Orient Express, Istanbul. (Photo by John Wreford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ...

Whilst no longer the place for serious conversation, hammams still play an integral part in Turkish culture, with visits to a ...

The fact that I have to jump through so many hoops to be a legal immigrant after so many museum acquisitions and exhibitions ...

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At the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, which opened near the Topkapi Palace Museum in 1869, you'll find more than a million antiquities displayed throughout three buildings: the Archaeological ...

There are endless things to see and do in Istanbul. The cultural capital of Türkiye and the largest city in Europe boasts thousands of great restaurants, historical sites, museums, and markets ...