Cornucopia was founded by John Scott and Berrin Torolsan in 1992. It is an English language magazine that concerns Turkish culture. The magazine has a broad scope that covers Turkey’s heritage prehistoric, Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican and that of the Turkic peoples.
The magazine also documents recent auctions and exhibitions of Turkish Art and Islamic art around the world. It has a large books section with reviews by prominent contributors.
Most back issues are still available, or can be found in second had book stores. Some have become collector's items, fetching large sums of money.
The arbiter of taste Tyler Brûlé has described Cornucopia in the Financial Times as ‘a cross between The World of Interiors and National Geographic, with a gentle Turkic twist’.
The New York Review of Magazines writes: ‘It’s a truism that the measure of a travel magazine’s success is whether it makes you yearn to visit the destinations it depicts. Cornucopia goes one better. It is a vacation in itself.’ Oryx, Qatar Airways’ flight magazine describes Cornucopia as ‘the much coveted magazine for the modern Turkish aesthete’.
The original ‘cornucopia’ (from the Latin cornu copiae or ‘horn of plenty’) was a horn overflowing with flowers, fruit and corn; a symbol of prosperity and abundance in the cities of Anatolia. We try to live up to the name.
Cornucopia is published in the UK by Caique Publishing Ltd and in Turkey by Kayık Yayıncılık Ltd. ISSN 1301-8175
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