#60JahreMusik: Frühstück Alla Turca Kabus Kerim and Başak Yavuz (Moderated by Sedef İlgiç) The consecutive interpretation carried out in tandem by Nazlı Sağdıç Pilcz and Melis Mielchen, whom you can see to the right of the frame, has been cut from the video for continuity purposes. German and...

English Translations: Zeynep Beler “… Foreign workers are colloquially referred to as ‘Gastarbeiter’ in this country. Meaning guest laborer, guest worker. Isn’t the very reasoning of the people who can come up with such a phrase against our sensibilities? A guest who labors!” Cem Karaca’nın Nokta...

Translated to English by Zeynep Beler. > > I was living in Berlin and all my neighbors were Turkish. I worked up a > > connection with the kids of my closest neighbors. In turn they wondered what > > this German was up to. I played the recorder for them and then gifted them > > with their own. In...

Interviews, DJ performances, and much more from the Berlin event will be on the istanbulberlin YouTube channel soon! (Subscribe now, don't miss it.) Our second article, in the framework of #60JahreMusik project made possible with Berlin Yunus Emre Institute, Hall of Fame, is also published. If you...

I was a kid who was educated at the Türkan Şoray Elementary School in Istanbul, who spoke Turkish fluently. From an early age I experienced the theatre plays and events performed at our school by Boğaziçi University students. I was in the school band. At 11, I arrived at this country where I...

In the first article of our case file on the ’61-90 era, from 1961 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, we’ll ease into a wide-angle perspective on the music market of Germany’s “Imagined Turkey”. The work conditions and lives of contemporary bards are channelled through the #gastarbeitergroove - that...

Translated to English by Zeynep Beler. The Frühstück Alla Turca program opened with a lively DJ set served up by DJ Funshine by way of morning coffee as the guests collected their rich Turkish breakfasts. DJ Funshine © istanbulberlin Presented by Ayşen Meliha Kahraman and translated by Funda...

You could visit the exhibition virtually from here. ARCHITECTURE IS STILL DOMINATED BY MEN Even the need to curate this exhibition tells us that the architecture is still a field that is dominated by men. Özlem Erdoğdu Erkarslan draws attention to the demand of women to architecture education....

As the Federal Republic of Germany rose from its ashes in the wake of the war that “we lost by proxy”, Turkey rushed in to fill the demand for a cheap workforce, following closely in the footsteps of Italy, Spain and Greece. On October 30, 1961, a Labor Agreement was signed between Bonn, the...