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Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Paul Benjamin Osterlund is a freelance journalist and writer based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Turkey's favorite TV cop returns, but not to Turkish channels

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Istanbul's African community squeezed between small jobs, huge discrimination

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Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Remake of Turkey's favorite school flick flunks at the box office

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Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Istanbul's first Kurdish film festival casts light on women issues

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 28: Balik Lokantasi restaurant's kitchen chief serves fish soup, in Karakoy district on September 28, 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey. Balik Lokantasi means Fish Restaurant in Turkish, as its name, it is a unequally fresh fish plates comes from the see or the Bosporus every day. its owner, Mr. Ozkaraman mentions that he doesn't have a refrigerator, when the fresh fish are finished he closes up the restaurant. (Photo by Yoray Liberman/Getty Images)

Turkish menus celebrate cherished regional soups

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Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Turks rediscover beloved Arabesque icon in new biopic

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Paul Benjamin Osterlund

New museum dedicated to legendary Istanbul photographer

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Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Sharp increase in Iranian visitors revitalizes Turkey's tourism sector

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

IZMIR, TURKEY - MAY 26: View of the city of Izmir on May 26, 2016 in Izmir, Turkey. NATO's Standing Maritime Group 2 including the German combat support ship "Bonn" is currently deployed in the region between the mainland of Greece and Turkey, and will conduct surveillance and monitor illegal crossings in the Aegean Sea. The number of attempts by refugees to reach the islands of Greece has dropped rapidly. (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)

Weary Istanbulites flock to seaside Izmir

Paul Benjamin Osterlund

Paul Benjamin Osterlund