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Turkish summer art lessons bring bliss
The sun is out, the weather has made up its mind to stay warm and Moda is swarming with visitors and locals alike sunning themselves along the coast and filling themselves with bottomless cups of tea. It is summer and soon the city’s arts will move outdoors or remain a distant reminder of how we fill up the winter months.
’Fatal Dress’ of woman sewn when they are born
ISTANBUL -Müjde Arslan, who was born in the southeastern city of Mardin, has experienced the difficulties of being a woman throughout her life. At the age of 28, she shot a documentary film ’Ölüm Elbisesi: Kumalık’ (A Fatal Dress: Polygamy), which features the painful life of women living there
A holiday commercialized with St Valentine’s myth
The fully history of St. Valentine's Day is blurry and nobody really knows who the real St. Valentine was. There are many stories and myths and there were three different Valentines who were martyred. One was a priest who lived in Rome and was supposedly martyred in 269 A.D. The second, a bishop, lived in Interamna (modern-day Treni) in Italy. There was a very obscure third Valentine who met his fate in Africa. The first Valentine, from Rome, is generally considered the right person and is associated with a charming but also gruesome story.
