Salon, located at the entrance and first floors of İKSV headquarters in Şişhane, opens its 5th season in October. ...

Istanbul, a city which hosts numbers of long lasting festivals, added a new member to it's festival family four years ago. International Istanbul Opera Festival, integrates opera with the city's historical venues and urban locations. ...

The Istanbul Biennial, with its goal of turning Istanbul into a meeting point within the visual arts for artists and viewers from different cultures, has been occurring since 1987 ...

The Istanbul Jazz Festival, held every year since 1994 in the first half of July, takes place in different concert and performance venues across the city. ...

The International Istanbul Film Festival - first held in 1982 as a “film week” with the theme of “the arts and cinema” - is one of Istanbul’s longest running film festivals. ...

The International Istanbul Music Festival - with the goal of being identified with the creativity that comes from the exchange of inspiration and artistic experimentation - brings togethers orchestras and soloists from different countries. ...

The Istanbul Theater Festival, which was first held in 1989, takes places once every two years in the month of May and introduces local and foreign dance and theater groups to the Istanbul stage. ...

Tulips have become the symbol of the city of Istanbul. These flowers have played a major role in Turkish art and culture for enturies. Tulips originally grew wild on the Asian steppes but their domestication and cultivation began in the Ottoman Empire. ...