Aziz Nesin

Constantinople was the capital of the eastern Christian world since Emperor Constantine in 330 A.D.

Veteran theater actor Genco Erkal, the founder of Dostlar Theater in Ankara, died of leukemia on July 31 at the age of 86. He was known as the "master of one-man plays."

Dostlar Theater shared the news on its official account in the early hours of the morning with an emotional message, saying, "Goodbye my friends, goodbye…"

Federations, unions, and workers Monday participated in two large strike rallies in Athens to mark Labor Day. 

The Sivas Massacre, an arson attack staged on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Madımak Hotel that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel personnel, was commemorated on its 28th anniversary on July 2 in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas.

The Sansaryan Han in Istanbul's Sirkeci neighborhood was once home to poor Armenian children, a police headquarters and the Istanbul Courthouse. Today, its landowners want to put it out to tender to rent it out for the next 35 years and make it a five-star hotel.

In the late 1970's, a few years after the fall of the colonels' junta, a book of stories by the Turkish writer Aziz Nesin was published in Greece with the title Coffee and Democracy.

Muzaffer İzgü, a leading writer of children's books and works of humor, died at the age of 84 on Aug. 26 after a battle with cancer.

İzgü was diagnosed with cancer after being taken to the Atatürk Training and Research Hospital due to extreme weight loss. The father of three rejected cancer treatment and returned to his home in Istanbul, where he died on Aug. 26.

The other evening, at 7:30 p.m., on Kemanke? Street in Istanbul's Karaköy district, there was a huge crowd in front of the "Global Karaköy" building.

The opening of an exhibition by the world's most famous street artist, Banksy, was in progress. The first comers were me, as a huge Banksy fan, and daily Hürriyet writer Kanat Atkaya.  

Writer, intellectual and humorist Aziz Nesin, who died in 1995, will be remembered on his 100th birthday with a series of events in ?zmir and a charity event in Istanbul The ?zmir Metropolitan Municipality has organized a festival for the 100th anniversary of late writer, intellectual and humorist Aziz Nesin's birth, while events will also take place in Istanbul to mark the occasion. 

The Justice and Development Party's (AKP) landslide victory on Nov. 1 has resulted in mixed reactions among those who are vehemently opposed to this party. The most obvious one is to blame the people who voted for the AKP.