While neighborhoods are being redeveloped, their histories are being used to advertise their future. History has become a marketing tool. Make use of the past and create the future with it: this is familiar for a country whose national ideology is built on an endless cycle of self-invention.

Street vendors are outlaws by definition.

On Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's great satire of Turkish modernization, The Time Regulation Institute.

Memories of director Seyfi Teoman, whose two feature films drove Turkish film for two decades.