{"id":29813,"date":"2011-01-01T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=29813"},"modified":"2011-01-01T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:35:55","slug":"istanbul%e2%80%99s-8500-year-history-told-in-%e2%80%98capital-of-cultures%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/01\/01\/istanbul%e2%80%99s-8500-year-history-told-in-%e2%80%98capital-of-cultures%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130stanbul\u2019s 8,500-year history told in \u2018Capital of Cultures\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0130stanbul\u2019s 8,500-year legacy in political, socioeconomic and cultural fields is being told in a new book launched this week as part of the \u0130stanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture program.<\/p>\n<p>Put together by an \u0130stanbul-based NGO called the T\u00fcrk K\u00fclt\u00fcr\u00fcne Hizmet Vakf\u0131 (Foundation of Service to Turkish Culture), the book \u201cK\u00fclt\u00fcrler Ba\u015fkenti \u0130stanbul\u201d also has an English version, titled \u201cIstanbul the Capital of Cultures.\u201d Both versions of the book were launched at a gala on Wednesday at the Cafera\u011fa Medresesi in Sultanahmet.<\/p>\n<p>The book aims to show the fact that \u201c\u0130stanbul has always been a center for economic, commercial and cultural connections from the past to the present day,\u201d the \u0130stanbul 2010 agency says about the book on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u015eerafettin Y\u0131lmaz, the president of the foundation, said during Wednesday\u2019s gala that the book was an effort to \u201crecount the little-known story of \u0130stanbul\u2019s 8,500-year history,\u201d the Anatolia news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The book is divided into four chapters, titled \u201cFrom Ancient Ages to the Post-Roman Period,\u201d \u201cEastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) Period,\u201d \u201cThe \u0130stanbul of the Ottoman Era\u201d and \u201cRepublican Years and \u0130stanbul.\u201d The 1,440-page volume brings together the writings of 76 researchers and specialists on \u0130stanbul\u2019s history, accompanied by a rich collection of around 1,000 photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0130stanbul\u2019s 8,500-year legacy in political, socioeconomic and cultural fields is being told in a new book launched this week as part of the \u0130stanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture program. Put together by an \u0130stanbul-based NGO called the T\u00fcrk K\u00fclt\u00fcr\u00fcne Hizmet Vakf\u0131 (Foundation of Service to Turkish Culture), the book \u201cK\u00fclt\u00fcrler Ba\u015fkenti \u0130stanbul\u201d also has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-29813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-istanbul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}