Hercule Poirot

‘Mad honey’: Türkiye’s elixir with dark side

Its fans swear it can cure heart palpitations, dodgy stomachs and even impotence. Yet every year hundreds of people end up in hospital after gorging themselves on Türkiye's "mad honey."

But beekeeper Bayram Demirciler is adamant the honey his bees make high in the mountains above the Black Sea "has never caused any problems."

Murder on the Orient Express | Athens | September 28

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is screening Sidney Lumet's celebrated 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christies's "Murder on the Orient Express," featuring an all-star cast including Albert Finney as the indomitable sleuth Hercule Poirot, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Ingrid Bergman, who won her third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Agatha Christie in Istanbul

On the anniversary of her death, we remember the dame of crime fiction, Agatha Christie, from the banks of the Golden Horn, by exploring the greatest mystery of her life: Her disappearance and how it links to the historic hotel of Pera Palace The dame of crime fiction Agatha Christie died on this day in 1976, leaving behind dozens of mysterious deaths over the course of 66 novels and 14