30 postcards in six concertino packs

30 postcards juxtapose descriptions of the 'Turk' by western authors with photographs of people and daily life in Istanbul . Western travelers, historians, anthropologists, journalists and diplomats from Rudyard Kipling, Edmondo de Amicis (Constantinople, 1896) to Robert Kaplan (The Coming Anarchy On Our Planet, 1994) have visited Turkey and wrote their impressions about the people and the culture. Both the quotations and photographs which cover the twentieth century bring an ironic interpretation to prejudice and stereotypification.

The idea of the 'terrible Turk' emerged at least as early as the fifteenth century.