Galata

A video presentation of artist duo Webb-Ellis's "For the First Baby Born in Space" and Richard Whitby's "The Lost Ones" is slated for SALT Galata between July 9 and Aug. 23.

Turkey’s new art platform BASE will be organized between Dec 21 and 24 at Istanbul’s Galata Greek School, bringing together a new generation of artists of Turkey under the same roof

Man performs BASE jump from historic Galata Tower

A man “base jumped” from the top of Istanbul’s historic 67-meter tall Galata Tower on the morning of Nov. 8.

A statue of 16th century Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (Mehmed the Conqueror) will be erected in Istanbul's Golden Horn, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş announced on April 1. 

Istanbul became the junction point on international waterways in the 19th century. Before anything else, the Suez Canal had drawn a portion of the heavy traffic in the northeast Atlantic to this region. Other than that, Russia and the Danube basin's entry to the Mediterranean traffic also created an effect.  

Istanbul's old Galata Bridge, which connected two important centers of the city for eight decades before it was taken to a rear point on the Golden Horn for restoration following damage from a major fire, has been entirely removed.

Turkish artist Erdal ?nci?s ?Clones Project? video series can be visited at Zorlu PSM in Istanbul until Aug. 28.

Here are 10 of ?nci?s mesmerizing GIFs which he shot and ?cloned? in Turkey, originally published on artnivo.com.

1) Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III (Istanbul)

2) Istiklal Avenue (Istanbul)

3) Taksim Square (Istanbul)

4) Galata Tower  (Istanbul)

People seem to think that Turkey has changed in some basic way in the past couple of years, that the system of 80 million people somehow shifted its stance overnight to no longer be an integral part of Western civilization.

It has been detected that three sections of Istanbul’s historic Galata Bridge, which was relocated to a new location 22 years ago, have gone missing.