Melik
Tutuncu, Chicago-based architect of Turkish
origin, talks about his grand-mother, Safiye Behar, a Jewish marxist
feminist who had a 30 year-long affair with Mustapha Kemal Atatürk
and influenced many of the reforms he was implementing in the 1920's,
which founded modern Turkey.
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Athens, 2006 (curated by Anna Kafetsi)
9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul,
2005
(curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun)
