Photos from the family album that my mother, a survivor, gave me 75 years after
#WWII
ended: Saartje, Sophie, Serah, Betje, Sientje, Louis, Janny, they all perished in the Holocaust. Today, On 4 May, we remember them & other victims of war.
#dodenherdenking
#RemembranceDay
#4mei
Gönüllü kültür elçiliği yapan Karsu ile hem birlikte yemek yaptık hem de
yeni yayınladığımız “Geçmişten Günümüze İstanbul Lezzetleri” kitabımızı konuştuk.
İstanbul mutfağını tüm dünyaya tanıtmak için bir dizi çalışma yapmaya başlıyoruz.
İzlemek için;
Among the victims of the
#Holocaust
were my grandmother Betje Bloemendal & 6 siblings, and their mother: all perished in Auschwitz & Sobibor. My sister
@juyterlinde
wrote an intriguing history about the strong women in our family, keeping their memory alive.
#RemembranceDay
#4mei
İn the picture:
@ekrem_imamoglu
mayor of İstanbul and
@inanguney
, the new mayor of Beyoğlu, the municipality where we live and work. Congrats on your election, we look forward to cooperating with you!
Yes, this is a question I hear all the time now. Here in Istanbul, many of our Dutch-Turkish staff would like to support both sides. Whatever the outcome, they will always be winners! May friendship win!
#EURO2024
#NEDTUR
🇳🇱⚽️🇹🇷🧡❤️
Milagros Socorro, journalist from Venezuela, winner of Oxfam Novib PEN Award 2018: “I have come to tell you that anything you take for granted can be lost in one minute.”
#freedomofexpression
#Winternachten
What I love in this country: Turkish tea culture. Wherever you go, whenever you come. Here people drink 4 times more tea than we do in the Netherlands.🇹🇷🇳🇱🫖
Tea consumption per capita (annual):
🇹🇷 Turkey - 3.16 kg
🇮🇪 Ireland - 2.19 kg
🇬🇧 UK - 1.94 kg
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 1.50 kg
🇮🇷 Iran - 1.50 kg
🇷🇺 Russia - 1.38 kg
🇲🇦 Morocco - 1.22 kg
🇳🇿 New Zealand - 1.19 kg
🇨🇱 Chile - 1.19 kg
🇪🇬 Egypt - 1.01 kg
🇵🇱 Poland - 1.00 kg
🇯🇵 Japan - 0.97
Futbol bu. Still under the impression of yesterday’s match🇳🇱⚽️🇹🇷 It could have gone both ways, the Turks played extremely well, but in the end there is only one team that can win. Mixed feelings for some of us, but together we are looking forward to the next match! 🧡
#Euro2024
In 1911, the Ottoman Empire donated this 160m2 carpet to the
@PeacePalace
in The Hague. It has now temporarily returned to its place of origin for an extensive restoration by excellent craftsmen. A complex logistic operation exemplary for good cooperation! 🇹🇷🇳🇱👏
@NLinTurkiye
Ülkemizin halı ustalarının emeğiyle üretilerek 1911’de Osmanlı İmparatorluğu tarafından Barış Sarayı’na hediye edilen tarihi
#Hereke
halısını, restorasyon sürecini başlatmak için Mayıs ayında Hollandalı yetkililerle birlikte buradan çıkartmıştık.
@TC_Disisleri
@TCKulturTurizm
Former Trabzonspor
#soccer
player Ahmetcan Kaplan, recently contracted by Dutch topclub Ajax, has his papers ready to leave for the
#Netherlands
. We wish the new number 13 a soft landing in Amsterdam and lots of succes! Bol şanslar! ⚽️💪🇳🇱🇹🇷
@AFCAjax
@NLinIstanbul
Traditional
#Van
breakfast hosted by Ambassador Dişli at the Turkish residence in The Hague. In order to protect this distinctive regional breakfast culture
#Turkey
is applying for inclusion on
#Unesco
’s intangible
#culturalheritage
list. Thnx for inviting us today!🙏
In the Netherlands a national campaign has started by 11 cooperating aid organizations
@giro555
to raise funds for the relief of Ukrainian refugees. In Istanbul we attached the Ukrainian flag at the Palais de Hollande today, to show solidarity and support.
Excited to meet Turkish soccer players
@yilmazburak17
&
@ErdoganDogan21
before their departure to their new club
@FortunaSittard
. Like diplomacy, sports contribute to strengthening ties & connecting people. Wish you lots of succes in 🇳🇱! First match August 6 against
@AFCAjax
⚽️
Felicitaties aan al mijn collega's die net zijn benoemd als ambassadeur. In dit bericht staan 13 andere topfuncties op posten en het ministerie nog niet vermeld. Zelf ben ik verheugd dat ik vanaf de zomer als Consul-Generaal in Istanboel aan de slag mag!
Impressed by yet another noteworthy exhibition
@DrentsMuseum
in Assen! Treasures from ancient
#Armenia
, with beautiful artifacts on loan from the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan runs until 30 October 2022.
#culturalheritage
This week, more than 400 Dutch museums show their collections, digitally. On this website you can search by province, city, or category & discover all sorts of cultural treasures! 🙏😃
#MuseumWeek
🇳🇱
#Netherlands
#culturalheritage
For now I’m still staying alone, in the beautiful old Palais de Hollande, above the consulate’s offices. My spouse will join me soon. Sometimes, during the night, I become intensely aware of the presence of Beyaz Gül reminding me of the unpredictability & fragility of life.
🌷Emirgan Park today, where thousands of tulips bloom in scenic gardens. This feast of colors & scents reminds of my home country, where
#tulips
should soon be in full bloom as well. No wonder we chose tulips as symbol for the celebration of💯years 🇹🇷🇳🇱friendship treaty!
#NLTR100
Farewell to the leaving consul-general by the staff
@NLinIstanbul
. In Turkey it's a good tradition to pour water on the road behind the departing person as he leaves. Thank you for everything
@BartvanBolhuis
, have a smooth and safe journey! 💦👏👋👋
A perfect day for planting
#Istanbul
#tulip
bulbs together! The history of these special tulips goes back hundreds of years, just like relations between our two countries go back more than 400 years. The return of the Istanbul tulip is a symbol of friendship & cooperation! 🇳🇱🇹🇷
İstanbul Lalesi, anavatanına kavuştu.🌷
Hollanda Krallığı İstanbul Başkonsolosu Arjen Uijterlinde tarafından hediye edilen 1000 İstanbul Lalesi’nin sembolik dikimi, Başkan Ekrem İmamoğlu’nun katılımıyla Emirgan Korusu’nda gerçekleştirildi.
My last day in function as Ambassador for International Cultural Cooperation. Thanking all of you for working together to promote the arts & culture in diplomacy! I will now move on to prepare for my next assignment in Istanbul & wish my successor
@dewivandeweerd
all the best! 🙏
On my way to the Netherlands, to spend New Year with my family. I wish all of you a happy, healthy 2022 full of fruitful 🇳🇱🇹🇷cooperation and friendship!👍💫
#Mutluy
ıllar
@NLinIstanbul
In the train to Ankara. Our new official travel policy aims at reducing CO2 emissions, by giving preference to public transport over short-haul flights. No problem when there are good high-speed rail connections such as this one between Istanbul and Ankara!
#greenmobility
🚝🧩👍
☀️Yaz geldi. Summer has arrived in #İstanbul. Our two palace pets, mother and daughter, enjoy every moment of it in the gardens! ❤️🧡🐈⬛
#cats
@NLinIstanbul
#PalaisdeHollande
View of Istanbul from the Palais d’Hollande at Pera (nowadays Beyoğlu) some 300 years ago and, from a slightly different perspective, today. This painting by Jean Baptiste Vanmour is part of the Ottoman Court gallery which can be admired
@rijksmuseum
in Amsterdam.
Saturday morning,exploring
#Istanbul
by bike. Cycling along the Bosphorus. Some parts have good bike paths, other stretches are more challenging… The vıews are gorgeous! ❤️🚲🌤
#cyclnginIstanbul
#Be
şiktaş
#Ortak
öy
#Bebek
A visit to Anıtkabir, paying respect to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. The mausoleum and museum dedicated to his life are built on top of a hill, a majestic location, with a spectacular view on the city around it.
The Netherlands returns kris that belonged to Javanese resistance hero Prince Diponegoro (1785-1855) to Indonesia. (In Dutch) 📷 Freek van den Bergh
#culturalheritage
#governmentnl
Courtesy call to Sahak II, Armenian patriarch at his seat in Kumkapı. The meeting helped us to get a better understanding of the situation of the Armenian community living in Turkey.
Cycling the coastal route, along the North Sea. It feels good to spend part of my holidays close to the place where most of my family lives. 🌤️🚲🇳🇱🧡
#cyclinginholland
🥲After 22 years the antiquarian bookstore next door is closing and moving elsewhere. So sad, we feel that Istiklal Caddesi (Grande Rue de Pera) should have shops like this one, selling old books, maps & engravings related to the rich history of this city!
@DenizlerKitap
📚🕌🕍
Today at 9.05 Turkey observed a two minute silence to commemorate the 83th death anniversary of
#Atat
ürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. At the consulate we halted our work to mark this occasion.
This is how the Dutch Embassy in Istanbul may have looked like in the early 18th century: a wooden house built on a stone foundation, with many rooms & a large garden. Through history it burned down several times; Palais de Hollande as we know it, was built in 1859.
@rijksmuseum
Bugün 19 Mayıs, Atatürk´ü Anma, Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı. Kutlu olsun! 🇹🇷🙌🇹🇷Happy Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day!
#19May
ıs
#gen
çlikvesporbayramı
#youthandsportsday
Oliebollen, a Dutch New Year’s tradition. We prepared three trays with fried small balls of dough and raisins for our colleagues working in the office today. Great teamwork!⚡️😋🥂
#oliebollen
#mutluy
ıllar
#teamwork
@NLinIstanbul
🇳🇱🇹🇷
Late breakfast in
#Kad
ıkōy, at the Nazim Hikmet Culture Center. In the bookshop I found an English translation of selected poems by this important poet considered to be one of the greatest modern Turkish poets (1902-1963). 📚🤓📖🇹🇷
#SaturdayMorning
Vandaag bij Clingendael voor de aftrap van de module
#internationaal
#cultuurbeleid
, vast onderdeel in de opleiding van onze jonge diplomaten. Dit jaar heel anders dan anders. Wel even wennen, op deze manier!
Saturday morning. It’s Christmas. Church bells toll on Istiklal, inviting worshippers and passersby to join in the celebration. From Istanbul, I wish all my followers, wherever they are a Merry Christmas.
#merrychristmas
#mutlunoeller
So much history on
#Istiklal
linked to the Netherlands: this is Turhol Han, which stands for Turkey Holland Tradehouse. Built ca.1880, it was used by Dutch businessman Jan van ‘t Hooft, who also acted as vice-consul from 1957-1959. There is space for rent, accidentally! 🇳🇱🇹🇷
Great to see this beautiful shared🇹🇷🇳🇱 heritage on
#Istiklal
being restored & reopened as Istanbul's
#art
&
#design
center Casa Botter!👏 It was built in 1901 for sultan Abdul Hamid's Dutch tailor Johannes Botter, who later also designed clothes for
#Atat
ürk.
@municipalityist
CASA BOTTER
•Sanat ve Tasarım Merkezi•
Yarından itibaren Botter Apartmanı tüm İstanbulluların.
Yok oluşa terk edilmiş Botter Apartmanı, İBB Miras eliyle UNESCO Tasarım Şehri İstanbul’un Tasarım Merkezi’ne dönüşüyor.
@CasaBotter
hesabımızı elden ele yaygınlaştıralım mı?😊
A visit to Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, one of the oldest covered markets in the world, with over 4000 shops. Drinking glasses of tea, cups of Turkish coffee, meeting interesting people. Here we are at Nick’s, with his beautiful refined leaves of tolerance & peace🍃
#kapal
ıçarşı 🙏
A wonderful KARSU concert again, this time in Istanbul Kemerburgaz Ormanı. Great to be able to attend & feel the enthusiasm of the audience! 🤩 🎤🎶🎸🎹👏 Afterwards I congratulated Karsu on her new foundation & the fundraising to help victims of the earthquake! 🇳🇱🇹🇷
@NLinTurkiye
The best of two cultures: Anatolian psychedelic rock from Amsterdam. Tonight live in Istanbul, second of two sold out concerts. Muhteşem bir konser! 🪕🎸
@altingunband
@iksv_istanbul
@NLinIstanbul
👍👏
In Roman times, Ephesus was the most crowded city in Asia Minor, prosperous and rich, with a port, lively streets, beautiful fountains, impressive monuments and terrace houses. Today, with excavations and reconstruction still going on, the place continues to overwhelm.
Walked for hours today along the Asian coast of the Bosphorus. #Üsküdar,
#Beylerbeyi
, #Çengelköy. Beautiful palaces and old residential buildings, mosques, and nice small fishing villages where you can have lunch in picturesque settings.
#Saturday
#İstanbul🌤🚶
150 psalms in 150 days, starting as of today. The Netherlands Chamber Choir is sharing the performances in the hope of bringing a positive message into the world in a 150-days online event. | via
@ned_kamerkoor
@DutchCulture
@mhrpolat
Such a pity! After the old antiquarian book shop, previously neighboring our consulate, another token of living heritage would then be lost on Istiklal… What should we do without cookies and pastry from Lebon?
#SaturdayMorning
Turkish coffee at Piyer Loti Coffeehouse. The place is named after the French novelist Pierre Loti (1850-1923), who spent part of his life in
#Istanbul
. The terrace on the hill offers a splendid view of the Golden Horn and
#Ey
üp district.
Today our deputy CG visited the scene of the attack in the heart of Istanbul to pay our respects and leave a bouquet of flowers in name of all our consulate’s colleagues. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and families of those impacted by this horrific crime.
These are the amazing colors of Holland in the month of April. A little bit chilly today, but what a joy to go cycling around these Mondrian like flower fields, not far from the place where I grew up...
#Bollenstreek
#cycling
#SundayMorning
🚴🌷🌤
A new posting, a new routine: hybrid conferencing at our consulate
@NLinIstanbul
. At the beginning of the week we come together to update the planning and modalities of upcoming cultural, economic & social events…
#wijzijner
#NLinTurkey
Sad news. Prof Alexander de Groot was a great scholar in the field of Ottoman history. His book “The Netherlands & Turkey, four hundred years of political, economical, social & cultural relations” is a must for every Dutch diplomat preparing for a post in this country
#RIP
🇳🇱🇹🇷
We are sad to share the news that Dr A.H. (Sander) de Groot has passed away. He published “The Ottoman Empire and the Dutch Republic” with NINO in 1978 and (rev. ed.) 2012. Long term NINO & NIT board member with special interest in
@nit_istanbul
.
Old Delft blue tiles placed on the walls of the staircase that was added later on to the Palais de Hollande. Vases with tulips.
#DutchDelight
@NLinIstanbul
🇳🇱🇹🇷
Felicitaties aan al mijn collega's die net zijn benoemd als ambassadeur. In dit bericht staan 13 andere topfuncties op posten en het ministerie nog niet vermeld. Zelf ben ik verheugd dat ik vanaf de zomer als Consul-Generaal in Istanboel aan de slag mag!
2021 has been declared Year of
#YunusEmre
and Turkish. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of this important poet-thinker, a beautiful recital & performance was staged tonight near Topkapi. What a surrounding to celebrate world heritage!
@UNESCO
@TCKulturTurizm
In 2020 Turkey continued to be in the top 10 of countries with Dutch cultural activities. The outlook for 2021 is cautiously positive as well. A compliment to the cultural and creative sectors working together in times of Covid19! 👏
@NLinIstanbul
🇳🇱 🇹🇷
100 meters down Istiklal Caddesi, there is the beautiful Palais de Suede where the Swedish consulate is located. Built in 1871, few years after our own Palais de Hollande. I went to visit my colleague Peter Ericson. Looking forward to work together, we are likeminded nations!🇳🇱🇸🇪
Mutlu Yillar. Maybe a little bit early, but we at the consulate have started to wish all the passersby on Istiklal Caddesi a happy new year! Will we be able to go ice skating this winter? Let’s hope so.
Thank you
@Paris
for your warm welcome! Looking forward to 2 inspiring days full of promising new cultural & creative partnerships between sister cities Paris & Amsterdam
#AMSinParis
@NLenFrance
Watching
#Kul
üp (The Club), a melodrama series released on
@netflix
last month. Set around an
#Istanbul
nightclub in the '50s featuring prominently some jewish characters speaking Ladino. The streets where we walk every day. Fascinating: the same space, a different era.
On October 29 in 1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk proclaimed the Republic of Turkey. The Consulate General congratulates the Turkish people on the Day of the Republic and wishes everyone a nice day.
Preparations ongoing for tomorrow’s King’s Day reception coincide with today’s birthday of one of our colleagues at the consulate. Orange tulip cupcakes perfectly fit to the occasion!
#Kingsday2022
@NLinIstanbul
Visiting the Netherlands Institute in Istanbul, a research center dedicated to the study of Turkey & surrounding regions through the ages. Unique library, knowledgeable staff! I was briefed about current projects & new ideas for future cooperation. Thnx for inviting us! 🙏🇹🇷🇳🇱