Director Tolga Karaçelik’s “Sarmaşık” (Ivy) and Mustafa Kara’s “Kalandar Soğuğu” (Kalandar Cold) were the big winners of the 52nd Antalya Film Festival, picking up four awards for each.The soirée, however, was marked by censorship after pro-government broadcaster A Haber cut off a speech by Nadir Sarıbacak, who won the best actor award at the event for his role in “Ivy,” after he mentioned an alcoholic drink in calling for unity in Turkey. Link

Continuing excavations in an extinct volcano in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman have unearthed a unique pyramidal mausoleum and a temple. Karaman Museum Director Abdülbari Yıldız said excavation and cleaning works had been continuing at the Değle and Madenşehri villages in the skirts of Karadağ Mountain since 2014. Link

The topic of culture and conflict has been the subject of fierce debate among scholars and the public alike over the last two decades. It has led to several empirical studies aimed at determining cause of the intensity of cultural conflicts and the factors which have been used as instruments to foster cultural dialogue for peaceful co-existence. In this article written by Muhammad Zamir in the Financial Express learn more about how cultural pluralism can be the multifaceted bridge through which difficulties are being overcome. Link

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Here is an update for Arts Council England which is about the analysis of the macroeconomic contribution of the arts and culture industry to the national economy Link

Restoration and conservation work will be conducted on mosaics at the Great Palace Mosaics Museum in Istanbul for the first time since the 1980s.“As part of a new project, there are plans for a new display at the [Great Palace Mosaic] Museum. As such, the mosaics should be restored again because the former restoration was carried out with the methods of the 1950s,” said Istanbul Restoration and Conservation Laboratory Director Ali Osman Avşar. Link

On the evening of 25 November in Brussels, Alessia Usai from Italy and Annika Hampel from Germany were announced as the winners of the 2015 ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management. ENCATC, the European network on cultural policy and management, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 ENCATC Research Award on Cultural Policy and Cultural Management:

A late-Roman era tomb, which was found last week in an olive grove in the northwestern province of Bursa’s İznik district, has been moved to the garden of a nearby museum and examined by archaeologists. Link

The “Yenikapı 12” ship, which was among the 37 ancient wrecks discovered during archaeological excavations as part of the Marmaray and subway projects in Istanbul - considered the world’s largest shipwreck collection - will return to sail the seas when the construction of its replica is completed. Link

At last year's event, the festival committee censored a scene from the documentary “Love Will Change the Earth,” and filmmakers were divided into two groups, ones who boycotted the festival and ones who attended. This year the situation is the same again. There are many filmmakers who did not even apply to any section of the festival, and there are a few who applied but withdrew their submissions later.  Link