Carlos Ortega Sánchez
@cortegaist.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate at Istanbul University | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
📈In Spain, only 35 out of 17,850 cemeteries offer Muslim sections, and many have no available space or are abandoned.
In Germany, more than 80% of Muslims of Turkish origin choose repatriation.
Here are some facts about the situation 👇🏾
In Germany, more than 80% of Muslims of Turkish origin choose repatriation.
Here are some facts about the situation 👇🏾
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📈In Spain, only 35 out of 17,850 cemeteries offer Muslim sections, and many have no available space or are abandoned.
In Germany, more than 80% of Muslims of Turkish origin choose repatriation.
Here are some facts about the situation 👇🏾
In Germany, more than 80% of Muslims of Turkish origin choose repatriation.
Here are some facts about the situation 👇🏾
In Europe, dying with dignity is a luxury. In my analysis for the Anna Lindh Foundation on Muslim Burial Rights in Europe I explore how the severe lack of Muslim cemeteries in Spain 🇪🇸 & Germany 🇩🇪 exposes a systemic failure of integration and belonging.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In Europe, dying with dignity is a luxury. In my analysis for the Anna Lindh Foundation on Muslim Burial Rights in Europe I explore how the severe lack of Muslim cemeteries in Spain 🇪🇸 & Germany 🇩🇪 exposes a systemic failure of integration and belonging.
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“Ormansız ve ağaçsız toprak vatan değildir”. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
🇹🇷 Cumhuriyet Bayramınız kutlu olsun
🇹🇷 Cumhuriyet Bayramınız kutlu olsun
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Ormansız ve ağaçsız toprak vatan değildir”. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
🇹🇷 Cumhuriyet Bayramınız kutlu olsun
🇹🇷 Cumhuriyet Bayramınız kutlu olsun
🍃🍄Ömerağzı’nda sonbahar🌲
October 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🍃🍄Ömerağzı’nda sonbahar🌲
“The Genoese House” in Galata. With columns dating from the 4th–5th centuries, it was used between the 13th and 15th centuries as a shop, residence, and possibly as an annex of the Church of St Paul (now the Arab Mosque).
📍Ceneviz Sanat, Galata
📍Ceneviz Sanat, Galata
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“The Genoese House” in Galata. With columns dating from the 4th–5th centuries, it was used between the 13th and 15th centuries as a shop, residence, and possibly as an annex of the Church of St Paul (now the Arab Mosque).
📍Ceneviz Sanat, Galata
📍Ceneviz Sanat, Galata
The Sea of Marmara with the islands of Yassıada and Sivriada, and in the background, the Armutlu Peninsula.
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Sea of Marmara with the islands of Yassıada and Sivriada, and in the background, the Armutlu Peninsula.
“View of the Bosphorus” (1856), by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817–1900).
October 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“View of the Bosphorus” (1856), by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817–1900).
🗿🇹🇷 En Karahantepe, Turquía, se ha descubierto un obelisco con forma de T con rostro humano de 12.000 años.
Es la primera vez que se encuentran rasgos faciales completos en un monolito neolítico.
Es la primera vez que se encuentran rasgos faciales completos en un monolito neolítico.
October 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🗿🇹🇷 En Karahantepe, Turquía, se ha descubierto un obelisco con forma de T con rostro humano de 12.000 años.
Es la primera vez que se encuentran rasgos faciales completos en un monolito neolítico.
Es la primera vez que se encuentran rasgos faciales completos en un monolito neolítico.
🛤️The typical landscape of the Phrygian Way: wheel tracks carved into the rock, the result of centuries of passage, from the time of the Phrygians (13th–8th centuries BCE) to the Roman period and even the early Byzantine era.
📍Kütahya, Turkey
📍Kütahya, Turkey
October 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🛤️The typical landscape of the Phrygian Way: wheel tracks carved into the rock, the result of centuries of passage, from the time of the Phrygians (13th–8th centuries BCE) to the Roman period and even the early Byzantine era.
📍Kütahya, Turkey
📍Kütahya, Turkey
📍 Doğluşah, Kütahya
October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📍 Doğluşah, Kütahya
🍂Kütahya’nın Frig Yolu🌲
October 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🍂Kütahya’nın Frig Yolu🌲
Haftalık kedi dozu 🐈 🐈⬛
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Haftalık kedi dozu 🐈 🐈⬛
📍 Süleyman Halife Sıbyan Mektebi Çeşmesi, Fatih (1728)
October 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📍 Süleyman Halife Sıbyan Mektebi Çeşmesi, Fatih (1728)
The Pavilion of Adile Sultan, sister of Sultan Abdulaziz, built in 1853 by the architect Nikogos Balyan.
📍Adile Sultan Kasrı, Validebağ Korusu
📍Adile Sultan Kasrı, Validebağ Korusu
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Pavilion of Adile Sultan, sister of Sultan Abdulaziz, built in 1853 by the architect Nikogos Balyan.
📍Adile Sultan Kasrı, Validebağ Korusu
📍Adile Sultan Kasrı, Validebağ Korusu
🍁Serindere’de sonbahar 🍂
September 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🍁Serindere’de sonbahar 🍂
Bu hafta çok güzel yerlere gittim 🎙️
September 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Bu hafta çok güzel yerlere gittim 🎙️
🏛️ Museums in Istanbul are open until 10 PM every day until October 1st.
Last night I took a nighttime stroll through the Archaeological Museum and spent some quality time alone admiring the Alexander Sarcophagus (312 BC).
Last night I took a nighttime stroll through the Archaeological Museum and spent some quality time alone admiring the Alexander Sarcophagus (312 BC).
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🏛️ Museums in Istanbul are open until 10 PM every day until October 1st.
Last night I took a nighttime stroll through the Archaeological Museum and spent some quality time alone admiring the Alexander Sarcophagus (312 BC).
Last night I took a nighttime stroll through the Archaeological Museum and spent some quality time alone admiring the Alexander Sarcophagus (312 BC).
📚We don’t have many books about Turkey in Spanish, so it’s a real pleasure to see an intimate and powerful story about migration, uprooting, and identity, from Anatolia to Germany, published in my mother tongue.
“Our German Fairy Tale”, by Dinçer Güçyeter.
Looking forward to reading it!
“Our German Fairy Tale”, by Dinçer Güçyeter.
Looking forward to reading it!
May 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
📚We don’t have many books about Turkey in Spanish, so it’s a real pleasure to see an intimate and powerful story about migration, uprooting, and identity, from Anatolia to Germany, published in my mother tongue.
“Our German Fairy Tale”, by Dinçer Güçyeter.
Looking forward to reading it!
“Our German Fairy Tale”, by Dinçer Güçyeter.
Looking forward to reading it!
ومن الماء كل شئ حي
“And We made from water every living thing.”
“And We made from water every living thing.”
May 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
ومن الماء كل شئ حي
“And We made from water every living thing.”
“And We made from water every living thing.”
A beautiful example of Ottoman Baroque: the Ayazma Mosque (“Holy Spring”).
Commissioned by Sultan Mustafa III in honor of his mother Mihrişah Emine Sultan and his brother Suleiman. Designed by Mehmed Tahir Agha.
📍Ayazma Camii (1761), Üsküdar, Istanbul.
Commissioned by Sultan Mustafa III in honor of his mother Mihrişah Emine Sultan and his brother Suleiman. Designed by Mehmed Tahir Agha.
📍Ayazma Camii (1761), Üsküdar, Istanbul.
May 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A beautiful example of Ottoman Baroque: the Ayazma Mosque (“Holy Spring”).
Commissioned by Sultan Mustafa III in honor of his mother Mihrişah Emine Sultan and his brother Suleiman. Designed by Mehmed Tahir Agha.
📍Ayazma Camii (1761), Üsküdar, Istanbul.
Commissioned by Sultan Mustafa III in honor of his mother Mihrişah Emine Sultan and his brother Suleiman. Designed by Mehmed Tahir Agha.
📍Ayazma Camii (1761), Üsküdar, Istanbul.
Parts of the Arch of Triumph of Emperor Theodosius (4th century), featuring soldier reliefs, reused as spolia in the foundations of Sultan Bayezid II’s hamam (16th century).
📍Beyazıt, İstanbul
📍Beyazıt, İstanbul
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Parts of the Arch of Triumph of Emperor Theodosius (4th century), featuring soldier reliefs, reused as spolia in the foundations of Sultan Bayezid II’s hamam (16th century).
📍Beyazıt, İstanbul
📍Beyazıt, İstanbul
An Ottoman birdhouse shaped like a mosque on the madrasa of Vizier Seyyid Hasan Pasha (18th century).
📍Seyyid Hasan Pasha Madrasa, Beyazıt
📍Seyyid Hasan Pasha Madrasa, Beyazıt
May 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
An Ottoman birdhouse shaped like a mosque on the madrasa of Vizier Seyyid Hasan Pasha (18th century).
📍Seyyid Hasan Pasha Madrasa, Beyazıt
📍Seyyid Hasan Pasha Madrasa, Beyazıt