Cornucopia is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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Content

Cornucopia was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English Language magazine that concerns Turkish culture. The magazine has a broad scope that covers Turkey’s heritage (prehistoric, Byzantine

Byzantine

Byzantine usually refers to the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.Byzantine may also refer to:* A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or native Greek during the Middle Ages...

, Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 and Republican

History of Turkey

The history of the Turks begins with the migration of Oghuz Turks into Anatolia in the context of the larger Turkic expansion, forming the Seljuq Empire in the 11th century. After the Seljuq victory over forces of the Byzantine Empire in 1071 at the Battle of Manzikert, the process was accelerated...

 and that of the Turkic peoples

Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...

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Thus there have been articles on Nemrut Dağı, Sagalassos

Sagalassos

Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya , and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta...

, Mimar Sinan, Mount Athos

Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

, Ottoman Damascus, the Turkic-speaking Uighurs of western China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe [ɡøbe̞kli te̞pɛ] is a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge in southeastern Turkey, some northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa . It is the oldest human-made religious structure yet discovered...

, Nevalı Çori

Nevali Cori

Nevalı Çori was an early Neolithic settlement on the middle Euphrates, in the province of Şanlıurfa , eastern Turkey. The site is famous for having revealed some of the world's most ancient known temples and monumental sculpture...

, Knidos

Knidos

Knidos or Cnidus is an ancient settlement located in Turkey. It was an ancient Greek city of Caria, part of the Dorian Hexapolis. It was situated on the Datça peninsula, which forms the southern side of the Sinus Ceramicus, now known as Gulf of Gökova. By the fourth century BC, Knidos was located...

, Termessos

Termessos

Termessos or Thermessos was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of more than 1000 meters at the south-west side of the mountain Solymos in the Taurus Mountains . It lies 30 kilometres to the north-west of Antalya...

, Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias

Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor. Its site is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from İzmir....

, Kariye Camii, Theodosian Walls, Ayasofya, Leighton House in London. Cornucopia has also profiled Freya Stark

Freya Stark

Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs. Perowne, DBE was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels, which were mainly in Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan....

, Lesley Blanch

Lesley Blanch

Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history....

, Steven Runciman

Steven Runciman

The Hon. Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH — known as Steven Runciman — was a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages...

, Godfrey Goodwin, Rifat Ozbek

Rifat Ozbek

Rifat Ozbek is a Turkish-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits. He has been named British Designer of the Year in 1988 and 1992.-Biography:Ozbek was born in Istanbul, Turkey and grew up in in a yali on the Bosphorus...

, Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan MBE is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993.- Biography :...

, Rebiya Kadeer

Rebiya Kadeer

Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist from the northwest region of Xinjiang Autonomus Region of the People's Republic of China...

, Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti was a French novelist and naval officer.-Biography:Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At the age of seventeen he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906...

, John Frederick Lewis

John Frederick Lewis

John Frederick Lewis was an Orientalist English painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes and often worked in exquisitely detailed watercolour. He was the son of Frederick Christian Lewis , engraver and landscape-painter.Lewis lived in Spain between 1832 and 1834...

, Sultan Mahmud II, Stratford Canning, Herbert Chermside

Herbert Chermside

Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside GCMG, CB was a British soldier who served as Governor of Queensland in Australia from 1902 to 1904.-Early life and education:...

, Grand Vizier Ali Pasha, Ismail Kemal Bey, and the Young Turks

Young Turks

The Young Turks , from French: Les Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favouring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Sultan and favoured a re-installation of the short-lived Kanûn-ı Esâsî constitution...

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The magazine also documents recent auctions and exhibitions of Turkish Art

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 and Islamic art

Islamic art

Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onwards by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited by or ruled by culturally Islamic populations...

 around the world. It has a large books section with reviews by prominent contributors.

Cornucopia also carries regular features on food, restaurants and life in Turkey by Berrin Torolsan, Andrew Finkel and Azize Ethem respectively.

Heritage

Notably, Cornucopia has brought publicity to some of Turkey's threatened heritage.

• At the end of 1993 it documented the Mocan Yali in the historic area of Kuzguncuk, in ‘The Pink House’ by Andrew Finkel. The building has since been pulled down and rebuilt.
• The 1999 article ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ by John Carswell documented the 14th-century tiles of the Murad II Mosque in Edirne. These have since been vandalised.

In both cases this is the only photographic record in print.

• In 1999 James Mellaart
  James Mellaart
  James Mellaart is a British archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was also expelled from Turkey suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market and was involved with the so-called Mother goddess controversy in...
  
   chose to publish his controversial discovery of 9,000-year-old paintings of Çatalhüyük in the early 1960s.

Critical reaction

• Maureen Freely, The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  : "Finally, no one should go to Turkey without reading at least a few issues of Cornucopia (cornucopia.net), which has to be one of the most beautiful magazines in the world. Published here, its remit is Turkey - not its sordid politics, but its art, architecture, history and antiquities."

• Craig Brown The Daily Telegraph
  The Daily Telegraph
  The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
  
  : "Surely one of the most intelligent and beautiful glossy magazines in the world".

• Tyler Brûlé
  Tyler Brûlé
  Tyler Brûlé is a Canadian journalist, entrepreneur, and magazine publisher. He is the editor-in-chief of Monocle and a columnist for the Weekend FT.-Early years:...
  
  , founding editor of Wallpaper* and Monocle
  Monocle (2007 magazine)
  Monocle is a lifestyle magazine and website founded by Tyler Brûlé, a Canadian journalist and entrepreneur. Described by CBC News reporter Harry Forestell as a "meeting between Foreign Policy and Vanity Fair", the magazine provides a globalist perspective on issues as fashion, international...
  
  : "Focused on celebrating and chronicling all things Ottoman-inspired and influenced, Cornucopia is a cross between World of Interiors and National Geographic, with a gentle Turkic twist. I've been trying to collect all the missing back issues for years now and still have some annoying gaps in my neatly arranged stacks."

• Travis Elborough
  Travis Elborough
  Travis Elborough is the author of The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With the Routemaster , The Long-Player Goodbye: The Album From vinyl To iPod And Back Again and Wish You Were Here - England on Sea...
  
  , The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  : "… boasting pages with the sheen of baklava and sumptuous full-colour photography throughout (and the photos, many stunning, do have the edge over the words in amount of space occupied), Cornucopia … doesn't skimp on writing of quality either."

• Caterina Scaramelli, quoted in Today's Zaman
  Today's Zaman
  Today's Zaman is one of two English-language dailies based in Turkey. Established on January 16, 2007, the newspaper's main competitor is the older Hürriyet Daily News....
  
  : “I see articles in Cornucopia as a journey into intriguing aspects of life, culture and history in Turkey; some are secret pearls waiting to be discovered, while others are subjects represented to the public with great attention to detail and accompanied by splendid photos. Cornucopia is a great travel companion, whether the journey is real or imagined. It's published three times a year and distributed both in Turkey and worldwide with around 18,000 copies sold each time.”

Contributors

Notable contributors have included:

Ara Güler Ara Güler Ara Güler is a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".- Early life :... Brian Sewell Brian Sewell Brian Sewell is an English art critic and media personality. He writes for the London Evening Standard and is noted for artistic conservatism and his acerbic view of the Turner Prize and conceptual art... John Julius Norwich John Julius Norwich John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO — known as John Julius Norwich — is an English historian, travel writer and television personality.-Early life:... Norman Stone Norman Stone Norman Stone is a British academic, historian, author and is currently a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara... Caroline Finkel Caroline Finkel Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey, with a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.... David Barchard Christian Tyler Min Hogg John Carswell Michael Rogers Tony Barrell Tony Barrell Tony Barrell may refer to:*Tony Barrell , British journalist who writes for the Sunday Times and other publications*Tony Barrell , Author and ABC/BBC World Service broadcaster based in Australia... James Mellaart James Mellaart James Mellaart is a British archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was also expelled from Turkey suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market and was involved with the so-called Mother goddess controversy in... Andrew Finkel Maureen Freely Maureen Freely Maureen Freely is a U.S. journalist, novelist, translator and professor.-Biography:Born in Neptune, New Jersey, Freely grew up in Turkey and now lives in England, where she lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to The Guardian and The Independent newspapers. Among... Nicholas Haslam Nicholas Haslam Nicholas Ponsonby 'Nicky' Haslam is a British interior designer and socialite and founder of the London-based interior design firm NH Design Inc.-Background:... Berrin Torolsan David Watkin David Watkin David Watkin BSC was a British cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source... Shirley Conran Shirley Conran -Background:Shirley Conran is a bestselling author, whose books include Lace, which was made into an 80s US miniseries and Superwoman. She has been a columnist for Vanity Fair, women's editor of The Daily Mail and a feature writer for The Observer newspaper.Conran was educated at the University... Philip Mansel Philip Mansel Philip Mansel is a British historian and the author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire... Boris Johnson Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British journalist and Conservative Party politician, who has been the elected Mayor of London since 2008... Emre Araci Emre Araci Emre Aracı, Turkish music historian, conductor, composer.- Life :Dr Emre Aracı is a Turkish music historian, composer and conductor who has been living in the United Kingdom since 1987... Patricia Daunt Bernard Burrows Harald Hauptmann Harald Hauptmann Harald Hauptmann is a German archaeologist known for his excavation work in east and southeast Turkey. He has also done study of pre-Islamic Pakistan. He's a Professor Emeritus at the University of Heidelberg and is a foreign-member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.- References :... Geordie Greig Geordie Greig Geordie Greig is a British journalist and newspaper editor. He is the editor of the Evening Standard newspaper. He attended Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford.-Journalism career:... Donald Carroll Donald Carroll Donald Carroll was an American author, editor, poet, columnist and humourist.-Early life:Born in Dallas, Texas in 1940, he was educated at the University of Texas, where he founded the poetry quarterly Quagga - which published the work of Richard Wilbur, e.e... Anastasia Ashman Anastasia M. Ashman Anastasia M. Ashman is an American author and cultural producer.-Background:Ashman was born in Berkeley, California, graduated from Berkeley High School in 1982, and received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in Classical Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Archaeology in 1986... Ateş Orga

Issues

1. Insider's Turkey, 1992
2. The Essential Rose, 1992
3. The Pink House: Inside the Mocan Yalı, 1992/93
4. The Absolute Guide to Istanbul, 1993
5. Palaces of Diplomacy I, 1993/94
6. Palaces of Diplomacy II, 1994
7. The Great Walls of Istanbul, 1994
8. A Turkish Summer, 1995
9. Ideal Worlds, 1995/6
10. Ingres and Lady Mary, 1996
11. Anatolia Rediscovered, 1996
12. The Black Sea, 1997
13. The Turkish Garden, 1997
14. ''Objects of Desire: Books on the Ottomans, 1997/98
15. Mountain Secrets, 1998
16. Beguiling Büyükada, 1998
17. The Republic, 1999
18. The Ottoman Riviera, 1999
19. Forgotten Riches: Poland's Ottoman treasures, 1999
20. The Lake that Time Forgot, 2000
21. Ottoman Damascus, 2000
22. The Sultan's Chalet, 2000/01
23. Haute Ottoman, 2001
24. The Wild East: Travels in Southeast Anatolia, 2001
25. The Abstract Heart: The Visionary Photographs of Zafer Baran, 2002
26. The Birth of Art: The Discovery of Göbekli Tepe and Nevali Çori, 2002
27. Sublime Simplicity: The Timeless Pots of Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, 2002
28. Peoples of the Black Sea, 2003
29. Ottoman Gardens, 2003
30. Early Journeys, 2003/04
31. China's Wild West, 2004
32. The Connoisseur's Guide to Istanbul, 2004
33. Great Exhibitions, 2005
34. Ottoman Kaftans, 2005
35. Istanbul Elegy, 2006
36. Beauty on the Bosphorus, 2006
37. A Riot of Textiles, 2007
38. The Big Bursa Issue, 2007
39. Diplomatic Secrets, 2008
40. Highlights of the First 40 Issues, 2008
41. Bathing Beauty:The Imperial Hammams of Istanbul, 2009
42. Adventures in Anatolia, 2009
43. Shrines & Sanctuaries, 2010
44. Classics With a Twist, 2010
45. Painting the Orient, 2011

Most back issues are still available, or can be found in second had book stores. Some have become collector's items, fetching large sums of money.

External links

• www.cornucopia.net