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Salt's e-publication No Other Records Found, prepared within the scope of Reşad Ekrem Koçu and Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive studies, has been made available.
Historian and novelist Reşad Ekrem Koçu (1905-1975), in his own words, constitutes the "enormous record" of Istanbul in his encyclopedia, which he started to publish in fascicles in 1944. It records the city in many aspects, including people, places, structures, events, customs and legends. He continued to work for the Istanbul Encyclopedia, which he said, "From now on, I will probably spend my life working on it" until the end of his life.
No Other Record Found takes its name from the phrase "no other record found about" at the end of some articles in the encyclopedia. Following the exhibition of the same name, which pursued various narratives about Istanbul under the guidance of Koçu and looked at the "strange" and "improper" city of those who are not recorded anywhere else, the aim of the publication is to interpret and evaluate this comprehensive archive from different perspectives. Like the Koçu corpus, which blurs the distinctions between literature and history, private and public, the articles in this compilation address many historical, geographical, architectural, literary and cultural issues raised by the Istanbul Encyclopedia, beyond disciplinary boundaries. Prepared with the contributions of writers from different fields, the publication offers a versatile look at Koçu's working methods, the formation process and content of the archive, with both historical and personal perspectives.
About Reşad Ekrem Koçu and the Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive
Reşad Ekrem Koçu and the Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive, which started its work in 2018 in collaboration with Salt and Kadir Has Universities, brings together the printed volumes of Koçu's Istanbul Encyclopedia and thousands of documents that form the raw material of the unpublished volumes. The archive, consisting of more than 40 thousand documents, is a kind of "media archeology laboratory" in terms of Koçu's working methods as well as the ideas he gave about the production of a multi-volume and multi-authored publication with limited resources in the second half of the 20th century. Among the documents detailing the complex and multi-layered creation process of the encyclopedia, there are text drafts for the articles planned to be included in volumes G-Z, early versions of some articles in the published volumes, and materials such as photographs, drawings, clippings, and collages. The archive, whose digitization and cataloging efforts have been completed, is planned to be made available online at the beginning of 2024.
No Other Records Found
Turkish, 332 pages ©2023 Salt/Garanti Kültür A.Ş. (Istanbul)
ISBN: 978-605-69760-8-7
Prepared by: Bülent Tanju, Cansu Yapıcı, Ezgi Yurteri, Gülce Özkara, Masum Yıldız
Authors: Agah Enes Yasa, Ahmet Ersoy, Ayşe Erek, Bülent Tanju, Cansu Yapıcı, Çağlar Fidan, Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Ece Eldek, Efe Murad, Emirhan Altuner, Ezgi Sarıtaş, Gülce Özkara, Gürbey Hiz, İrvin Cemil Schick, Lorans Tanatar Baruh, Innocent Yıldız, Mehmet Kendirci, Merve Ünsal, Murat Tülek, Nazım Dikbaş, Nurşen Gürboğa, Özge Ertem, Shirine Hamadeh, Tan Morgül, Yağmur Yıldırım, Yonca Güneş Yücel, Zehra Betül Atasoy
Illustrations: Cem Dinlerini
Graphic Design and Application: Elif Tuna, Gamze Cebeci
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