Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist

He was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

film director, photographer, screenwriter and actor

He won 23 international prizes like the Grand Prix, Best Director and Palme for films Üç Maymun, Bir Zamanlar Anadolu, Kış Uykusu.

İsmail Acar

Painter

He is a leading Turkish painter who was awarded as "The Most Successful Artist of Turkey". The artist has created works on themes such as history, particularly that of Istanbul, and the meeting of Western ideas with Eastern spirituality.

Ebru

traditional Turkish art

Ebru is the traditional Turkish art of creating colourful patterns by sprinkling and brushing colour pigments onto a pan of oily water and then transferring the patterns to paper.

Turkish tiles and ceramics

The art of Turkish tiles and ceramics occupies a place of prominence in the history of Islamic art. A technique in which the Anatolian Seljuks were skilled was that of mosaic tile compositions that are generally geometrical but floral motifs and sometimes calligraphy. The most popular colors were turquoise, cobalt blue, eggplant violet, and black.

Zeybek

folk dance

The Zeybek is a form of folk dance peculiar to Western, Central and Southern Anatolia in Turkey. There are two types of costumes Efe and Zeybek. Turnings in the Zeybek plays display Zeybek's self-assurance, honesty, braveness and challenging. Musical instruments like clarinet and drum are used in the open areas and baglama (a plucked instrument with 3 double strings and a long neck) in the closed areas. The double clarinet is traditional while the first clarinet plays the melody and the other one accompanies it.