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Celebrity Cruises have wiped Istanbul out of their routes for 2016 due to limited availability of moorings at port operations.

This eliminates the initially planned overnight stays of Celebrity Reflection and Celebrity Equinox.

Instead, Celebrity Reflection will extend the time spent in Athens on an overnight stay and also call at Chania in Crete and Bodrum in Turkey.

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV) has introduced a translation award in honor of Talât Sait Halman, who died last year, to support outstanding translations of literary works, including but not limited to poetry, short stories and novels. 

Turkish journalism is passing through a very difficult period, but I don't really recall when it wasn't in a difficult situation. However, the current period is particularly difficult. The atmosphere of fear, intimidation and abeyance to the absolute authority has reached such a dimension that journalists, unfortunately, might steer clear of discussions where problems are discussed.

Directors Tolga Karaçelik and Mustafa Kara films were the big winners at the Golden Oranges in Antalya amid a new controversy over censorship Director Tolga Karaçelik's "Sarma??k" (Ivy) and Mustafa Kara's "Kalandar So?u?u" (Kalandar Cold) were the big winners of the 52nd Antalya Film Festival, picking up four awards for each.

'Bare, Naked, Nude,' a new exhibition recently opened at Istanbul's Pera Museum, includes academic studies of 44 artists from different periods Istanbul's Pera Museum is presenting a new exhibition titled "Bare, Naked, Nude: A Story of Modernization in Turkish Painting" which sheds light upon the development of nude painting in the modernization period of Turkish art

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is in a legal row with Turkey over whether the character Gollum is good or bad. Dr. Bilgin Çiftçi is accused of insulting the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after he shared an image comparing Erdogan’s facial expressions with the gollum!