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Turkey's pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, was inaugurated on May 26, featuring the project Darzanà. 

April 30, which was officially designated as International Jazz Day in 20111 by UNESCO in order to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe, will once again be celebrated in Turkey.

As part of the 2016 International Jazz Day celebrations, the Ay?egül and Nezih Ye?ilgil Quartet will perform at the Istanbul Zorlu Center PSM.

The 20th edition of the Istanbul Theater Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), will take place from May 3 to 28 and offer theatregoers an extensive program, featuring a range of plays, dance shows and performances from Turkey and abroad, as well as parallel events. 

The 35th Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), presented this year's awards at a ceremony at the Haliç Congress Center on April 15.

The Golden Tulip for the Best Film in the National Competition of the festival went to "Toz Bezi" (Dust Cloth), directed by Ahu Öztürk, who received the award from the jury head, Müjde Ar.

The 15th Istanbul Biennial set for autumn 2017, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), will be curated by the artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. 

According to a written statement by IKSV, Elmgreen & Dragset said they are looking forward to collaborating across boundaries at a time of rising nationalism.

The 35th Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), kicked off last night with the opening film "Midnight Special." 

A film by Jeff Nichols of "Take Shelter" fame and starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Jaeden Lieberher and Adam Driverthe, "Midnight Special" is literally a homage to the fantasy films of the 1980s. 

The Turkish cinema sector has criticized the Istanbul Film Festival's decision to not include the documentary "The Eye of Istanbul," featuring the life of internationally acclaimed Turkish journalist and photographer Ara Güler, in this year's program. 

"The Eye of Istanbul," a film featuring the life of world-renowned Turkish journalist and photographer Ara Güler, has not been included in the program of the upcoming Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV). 

Various plays and concerts have been postponed in Istanbul and Ankara, as well as many other places around the country, after the terror attack in Ankara on March 13In the wake of a deadly car bomb attack in the Turkish capital of Ankara on March 13, a number of cultural events in Istanbul and Ankara have been canceled. 

Istanbul's Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art Center hosts an exhibition organized as the Turkish leg of the 'Ottomans and Europeans: Reflecting on Five Centuries of Cultural Relations' project supported by the EUOrganized with the collaboration of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV) and Italy's Cittadellarte-Pistoletto Foundation, an exhibition titled "Ottomans and Europeans: Past