Defne Suman

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke...

One hot summer day in 2003, 40-year-old art historian Melike Isik leaves her summer home in Princes Island and takes the ferry to Fener, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city. She is travelling to a mysterious meeting with an even more mysterious man. Known only to her through a brief email exchange, Petros has contacted her out of...

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke...

I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles: the man who dreamt, deceived, envied, loved… Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his...

One hot summer day in 2003, 40-year-old art historian Melike Isik she leaves her summer home in Princes Island and takes the ferry to Fener, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city.She is travelling to a mysterious meeting with an even more mysterious man. Known only to her through a brief email exchange, Petros has contacted her out of...

One hot summer day in 2003, 40-year-old art historian Melike Isik leaves her summer home in Princes Island and takes the ferry to Fener, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city. She is travelling to a mysterious meeting with an even more mysterious man. Known only to her through a brief email exchange, Petros has contacted her out of...