With the new art season about to start, we spoke to curator Nursaç Sargon about her project Monitor Izmir and the decentralisation of Turkey’s artistic scene.

Delicious, tasty, cute and culinary Middle Eastern food blogs and websites enjoyed by Mashallah News, licking our fingers.

The occupation began with a few dozen people protesting the demolition of trees in Gezi Park by a private company at 2 AM. That morning, the bulldozers came back and tried to continue demolishing the patch of land on the far edge of the park.

For eight days and nights, Mashallah News covered the uprising in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, highlighting the huge diversity of the Gezi movement.

Modern Times is a short film describing the life of an ordinary man in Izmir. We spoke to the director Aykut Alp Ersoy

“Modern Zamanlar” kısa filmi İzmir’de çekildi ve sıradan bir insanın hayatını anlatıyor, yönetmen Aykut Alp Ersoy ile konuştuk.

“Modern Times” is a new short movie by young Turkish director Aykut Alp Ersoy. It was released on Vimeo two weeks ago and received a lot of interest.