Ottoman people

The scene is the conference hall of the İzmir Bar Association. The occasion is the 82nd anniversary of Turkish women's suffrage. As Turks never get tired of telling you, in voices that drop an octave in admiration of a glorious/glorified past, Turkish women obtained the right to vote and be elected before some of their European sisters, thanks to the nation's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

This week marks 92 years since the establishment of Turkey's first women's organization, which is nearly as old as the Republic of Turkey itself. The organization was initially founded as a political party; in fact, the newly-founded Turkey's first party amazingly catered specifically to women's rights.

A new exhibition at Istanbul?s Depo gallery takes a closer look at personal and communal affiliations in the Armenian diaspora, said by Armenians themselves to be ?scattered like pomegranate seeds across the world.?

?GRANDCHILDREN, New geographies of belonging? opens on Sept. 3 at Depo in Istanbul?s Tophane neighborhood, and will run until Nov. 1.

Summer time is the time for confusion in movie theaters. Among the Hollywood blockbusters and anticipated indie films finally finding release dates after months are the low-budget, low-key Turkish films.

An Ottoman medal, which was once presented by a sultan to the wife of a British ambassador in Turkey, will be auctioned in Istanbul soon, according to semi-official Anadolu Agency.