Oscar winning Sicilian-American director Martin Scorsese is shooting a documentary on ancient shipwrecks in Sicily. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Aviator and The Departed director Scorsese, 81, whose parents were from villages in the Palermo area, said he felt “I can unveil something unknown to the audience” and said
Former culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano on Monday spoke for four hours to prosecutors investigating his complaint against the former lover and ex consultant who caused his resignation, Maria Rosaria Boccia, judicial sources said. Prosecutors had summoned Sangiuliano to clarify some aspects of the complaint filed against fashion entrepreneur and influencer
A local office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party in Istanbul’s Sultangazi district was targeted in a shooting attack early on Sep 28. The office was empty at the time, and no injuries were reported while bullets broke the office windows, according to reporting from Mezopotamya Agency
American philosopher and literary theorist Michael Hardt is coming to Istanbul to discuss his latest book, The Subversive Seventies, recently published in Turkish as Yikici Yetmisler by Otonom publishing house. The event will be held on Oct 12, at 5.00 pm at the Moda Stage theater in the Asian-side district
Rising overcrowding and reports of human rights abuses in Turkish prisons are making life increasingly difficult for prisoners. In the eastern province of Van, arbitrary practices, limited access to healthcare, hunger strikes, and prisoner deaths are becoming more common, highlighting the severity of human rights violations in the region. According
