20 November 2009 / TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL
An exhibition highlighting the interaction between İstanbul and Venice from the 15th century to the 1990s in the diplomatic, military, commercial and artistic spheres opened yesterday at Sakıp Sabancı Museum in İstanbul.
Titled “Osmanlı Döneminde Venedik ve İstanbul: Nam-ı Diğer Aşk” (Venice and İstanbul During the Ottoman Era: In Other Words, Love), the exhibition showcases items from a number of museums in Venice and İstanbul, including the Topkapı Palace Museum, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the Pera Museum and the Yapı Kredi Vedat Nedim Tör Museum.Speaking at the opening event on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said the exhibition on İstanbul and Venice tells the love story of water with nature and history. “We will get the chance to see different examples of a centuries-old cultural relationship between Italy and Turkey,” he added. Davutoğlu’s Italian counterpart, Franco Frattini, thanked the organizers of the exhibition.
