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Salt’s new exhibition founded by Garanti BBVA “No Other Record is Found: Reşad Ekrem Koçu and the Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive” opened in Salt Galata. Prepared within the scope of Reşad Ekrem Koçu and the Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive, which Salt has been conducting since 2018 in collaboration with Kadir Has University, the exhibition sheds light on the unpublished sections of the Istanbul Encyclopedia which historian and novelist Reşad Ekrem Koçu (1905-1975) devoted most of his life. The exhibition considers the building in which it is placed as an urban focus and presents the selection of materials in a framework constructed around the Galata district that spreads over floors of Salt Galata. It brings to the fore the exceptional city image created by Koçu for Galata and its near surroundings and also its inhabitants in a time period from the early 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The phrase “no other record has been found about it” at the end of some articles to the point where the official historiography is gone; looks at the city of those who are not registered elsewhere. Parallel to the exhibition, which will continue until the 29th of October, the archive was taken over by Kadir Has University as a document group of approximately 40 thousand units that are planned to be transferred to digital media and available online. An e-publication prepared with the contributions of researchers from various disciplines will accompany the exhibition and the archive project aims to bring a different perspective to 19th and 20th-century Istanbul.
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