Websites
ARTS & CULTURE
Google’s arts and culture service called “Arts & Culture” digitizes exhibitions, museums, galleries and festivals from around the world, including Turkey, and opens them to everyone for free. If you are interested in Turkish culture and art, you can visit this site.
TURKISH CULTURE
On this site, where you can see all the elements of Turkish culture collectively, you can read many articles on different topics and get in-depth information.
SAT7 TURK HABER
You can find Turkish and English content on this website where you can follow news mostly about Christians and Christianity in Turkey.
GLOBAL TRELLIS
Global Trellis is a valuable resource of useful articles, books and services that aims to help cross-cultural workers thrive through continuous upskilling and development. If you are a cross-cultural worker, you should visit this site.
Books about Culture
THE CULTURE MAP
CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
CULTURES & ORGANIZATIONS
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
FOREIGN TO FAMILIAR
Books about History
ATATÜRK
OTTOMAN STUDIES
THE EMPIRE’S LONGEST CENTURY
THE YOUNG TURK LEGACY
FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC
Turkish Cookbooks
MELIZ’S KITCHEN
REFIKA’NIN MUTFAĞI
THE TURKISH COOKBOOK
Turkish Literature
ISTANBUL WAS A FAIRY TALE
MEMED, MY HAWK
THE FEW
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
THE TIME REGULATION INSTITUTE
Podcasts
TURKEY BOOK TALK
In each episode of this podcast you can find conversations with many journalists, academics and writers about books written on various topics.
TURKISH STORIES
This channel has been prepared to help people practice Turkish whether it’s their mother language or second language while having fun listening to stories that are designed to improve their language skills.
TURKISH T(ea)V Time
Turkish T(ea)V Time is a show for chatting about, learning about, and laughing about Turkish television shows (diziler). If you are interested in learning more about Turkey or just about these shows, you should check this out.
RORSHOK TURKEY UPDATE
This podcast is a ten-minute weekly audio update in English of what’s happening in Turkey.
HAYRIYE & HURIYE’S
This is Hayriye & Huriye’s podcast’s on Turkish Pop Culture where they discuss all things Turkish pop culture related as seen, through the eyes of two Turkish-Australian girls.
Bi’BAK
Songs are witnesses of their era. Aiming to read the history of Turkish music through songs, this podcast aims to introduce listeners to the Turkish music adventure that started with marches, shaped by alaturka and folk music, and reached today with popular songs. (The entire podcast is in Turkish)
Videos
THE EYE OF ISTANBUL
An insightful doc thick with the sights and smells of a foreign rarely glimpsed world. Ara Güler’s archive of photographs captures the essence of Istanbul over sixty years. The legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer dedicated his life to recording the spirit of one of the most vivid cities on earth. Güler’s communication of his craft offers a crisp and revelatory insight into the mind of a photographic master.
KEDI
Kedi is a meticulously filmed documentary in which we witness the stories of seven cats living on the streets of Istanbul. This heartwarming documentary reveals the people of a city and their unique relationship with cats. While watching the documentary, you will find yourself in a love letter to the cats and the city they live in.
THE RITUAL OF TURKISH COFFEE
Coffee culture is something of an understatement when it comes to Turkish Coffee. It’s more of a ritual. It is the ritual of drinking Turkish coffee that has mesmerized the world and made coffee one of the most favorite beverages in the world. Turkish Coffee is the first beverage to be added to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list and it is something.
UNCOVERING MOUNT NEMRUT
The haunting sculptures overlooking Mount Nemrut are some of the most magnificent that you’ll find anywhere in the world. Giant heads built in the 1st century B.C. under the Commagene Kingdom look out over an incredible sunrise and sunset every day. These massive sculptures are like just about nowhere else in the world, weighing 6 tons and are a full 10 meters tall.
HAGIA SOPHIA: ISTANBUL’S ANCIENT MYSTERY
The Hagia Sophia is an enormous architectural marvel in Istanbul, Turkey, that was originally built as a Christian basilica nearly 1,500 years ago. Much like the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Parthenon in Athens, the Hagia Sophia is a long-enduring symbol of the cosmopolitan city. However, as notable as the structure is itself, its role in the history of Istanbul—and, for that matter, the world—is also significant and touches upon matters related to international politics, religion, art and architecture.
ISLIKLA KONUŞANLAR BELGESEL
Included in UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Protection, ‘Bird Language’ is a unique communication method understood by approximately 10000 people in the Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey.
The Turkish Handbook 