Jennifer Hattam

Istanbul's long-running battles over public space and urban liveability have been thrown into sharp relief by a decade-and-a-half-long building boom that has shifted demographics and living habits.

War and strife have uprooted many researchers. Can their life’s work be saved?

By operating urban beehives year-round, Bybi helps the environment, gives training, and creates opportunity.

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial is fascinating but often perplexing, more interested in questions than answers, and in the past than the future.

A controversial €1.2 billion dam project threatens to displace tens of thousands of people across the Tigris Valley and submerge 12,000 years of history in Hasankeyf.

Turkey's rush to build coal plants comes at the expense of its most beloved culinary ingredient.

Experts are uncovering millennia of history under a Turkish megacity’s outskirts.

Soup-delivery project brings together three disadvantaged groups often ignored in Turkey’s largest city

The ongoing debate raises bigger questions about who benefits from the city's changing landscape....

Nature Iraq wants to restore the Tigris, which contributed to the birth of agriculture about 7,000 years ago, to its free-flowing, clean former self. The environmental group is swimming upstream.

Turkey's construction sector, a key driver of the country's economy as it boomed over much of the last decade, is perilous for workers.

Subway construction offers archaeologists rare opportunities to dig into historic urban centers — but with the clock ticking.

The battle over Gezi Park has become a symbol of opposition to the city's massive urban upheaval....

"We felt a real hunger in Istanbul for projects that are bottom-up."

Turkey’s Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük may have been an orderly society built on tolerance and equality — until it fell apart.