TuRKEY FOR CoNNOISSEURS
Contents
Cover Story Power Dressing: the dramatic imperial kaftans on show at Washington's Sackler Gallery · 7
Cover photograph: detail ofa 16th- or 17th-century Ottoman silk kaftan, from the Topkapı Palace,
exhibited at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery
Special Feature
LAND OF A THOUSAND MANSIONS CouNTRY HousEs OF THE BLACK SEA A 40-page celebration of the architectural heritage of the Eastern Black Sea Mountains
Photographs by Ali Konyalı
Contributions by Mustafa Reşat Sümerkan and Michael Meeker · 40
Life and Times And Where Shall We Begin?
An appreciation of Godfrey Goodwin by Maureen Freely · 22
The Man Who Made Albania: Ismail Kemal's roller-coaster career, by David Barchard · 3 5
Painting his Way into History:
The private world of the dashing last Caliph, by Philip Mansel · 78
Architecture in the Wake of the Spirits: a beautiful small hotel on the Bosphorus, by Patricia Daunt · 98
Books
Reviews by Tim Stanley, Ilber Ortaylı, Robert Ousterhout, David Barchard,
Berrin T orolsan and Andrew Finkel · 2 7
Food Championed by the Cavalry: Winning ways with okra, by Berrin Torolsan · ıo8
Off the Eaten Track by Charles Perry · 120
Regulars CONNOISSEUR'S DIARY · 14 PRIVATE Vrnw by Andrew Finkel · 18 VıLLAGE VorcEs by Azize Ethem· ıı7 RESTAURANTS by Andrew Finkel and Christopher Ryan · 124