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September 2005

Let’s make a fresh start ......with education. - Editorial

Monday may be the beginning of the working week, April the beginning of the financial year but the most important beginning for many of us is September - the unofficial start of the working year.

	Powerful reasons why Turkey should join the EU Twenty-two months ago I stood in the rubble of what had once been the fine perimeter buildings and courtyard of Pera House, the British consulate-general building in Istanbul. A few hours before, it had been blown up by Al Qaeda-linked suicide bombers. Sixteen people were killed - three British and 13 Turkish citizens. Read more...
	A Week in the Life of... {Ramazan Guveli} When I was at high school, politics and foreign affairs subject were very popular, and hence I went to University of Istanbul to study International Relations. I felt the importance of English while at University and after graduating I joined some of my classmates and in 1997 came to London... Read more...

Talking Education with ATA - Interview

“Setting up an organisation like ATA is easy, but we want to see its continuation... We want young people to take on executive committee roles”

Anglo-Turkish Association for
Academics and Professionals

ATA was founded by a group of Turkish students, academics and professionals in London in 1994. The diversity of members' backgrounds and interests has increased in time, as the number of its members has gone up.

London based Murat Kebir makes his directorial debut

London-based Murat Kebir made his directorial debut recently with the short film "An Eye for a Tooth" which had its first screening in London's Curzon Soho. The film will be shown in 4 film festivals around the globe - the New York Turkish Film Festival, the Detmold International Film Festival "FilmLichter 05"...

Silahtaraga: An Old Power Plant Turned Into a New Museum

An industrial building in Istanbul has opened its doors as museum for contemporary art. Pinpointed at the Golden Horn, this new cultural oasis is located in the building that housed Turkey's first thermoelectric power plant, Silahtaraga, which halted its operations 20 years ago.

London Based Elvan Erdin: A solo show of paintings

Elvan works with a range of materials putting together layers of surfaces, informed by Ancient History, Cave Art and Social Anthropology.

Newsweek: "Istanbul is one of the coolest cities in the world"

Newsweek, one of the most prestigious weekly magazines in the world, published an article about Istanbul in its August 29th Issue.

Voices of Autumn Exhibition

EAST AND WEST hails the continuum and our connectivity; sunrise in the east and sunset in the west. The exhibiting artists start in the west with the UK, moving across to a central point with Iran and Israel then completing the cycle with Japan in the Far East.