{"id":2268,"date":"2026-05-27T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/?page_id=2268"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:41:21","slug":"nudes-of-istanbul-basin-bulteni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/nudes-of-istanbul-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Nudes Of Istanbul Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><!-- ====================== BLOCK 1: SCHEMA.ORG JSON-LD GRAPH (IMAGE ADDED) ====================== -->\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@graph\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"NewsArticle\",\n      \"@id\": \"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/nudes-of-istanbul-press-release\/#pressrelease\",\n      \"headline\": \"The Nudes of Istanbul: A Fourteen-Year Collective Nude Photography Practice from Istanbul Opens at Die Akt Galerie Berlin, 3-19 July 2026\",\n      \"description\": \"Group exhibition and accompanying English-language photobook curated by Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m. 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The project brings fourteen photographers and three model-authors into public view at Die Akt Galerie, Berlin, between 3 and 19 July 2026, opening Friday 3 July at 19:00. All works were made in Istanbul over the last fourteen years, many with Turkish models working in fine-art nude photography, inside a long-running studio practice built on real bodies, controlled light, physical materials and explicit written consent.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <ul class=\"press-release-essentials\" aria-label=\"Essential facts\">\n      <li><strong>Exhibition:<\/strong> The Nudes of Istanbul \/ \u0130stanbul'un \u00c7\u0131plaklar\u0131<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <span itemprop=\"contentLocation\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Place\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Die Akt Galerie<\/span>, <span itemprop=\"address\">Krossener Str. 34, 10245 Berlin, Germany<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n      <li><strong>Dates:<\/strong> 3-19 July 2026<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Opening:<\/strong> Friday, 3 July 2026, 19:00<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Gallery hours:<\/strong> Friday-Sunday, 15:00-19:00<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Admission:<\/strong> Free<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> <span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n      <li><strong>Photographers:<\/strong> 14 (five women)<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Model-authors:<\/strong> Zeynep Renda, Su Ye\u015fil, Marmelat<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Publication:<\/strong> English-language hardcover photobook, planned with ISBN registration<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Press contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@burakbulut.info\">info@burakbulut.info<\/a><\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <section id=\"lead\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n\n    <h2>A Fourteen-Year Practice from Istanbul, Now Public in Berlin<\/h2>\n\n    <p>Die Akt Galerie Berlin will present <em>The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em> from 3 to 19 July 2026, a group exhibition that brings a fourteen-year collective fine-art nude photography practice from Istanbul into public view for the first time. Curated by Berlin-based photographer, artist and educator Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, the exhibition gathers fourteen photographers whose works were produced in Istanbul inside a long-running studio structure built around lighting design, set construction, model direction, physical materials and camera-based authorship.<\/p>\n\n    <p>All exhibition works were made in Istanbul across the past fourteen years, many with Turkish models working in fine-art nude photography. The location is not a neutral detail. The project emerged in a social climate where the public visibility of nude imagery has become increasingly difficult, yet it does not turn that difficulty into spectacle. It treats the social weight of the nude body as one of the conditions under which the work was produced.<\/p>\n\n    <p>The project grows out of Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m's nearly twenty years of work with the nude as an artistic subject. Across that period, he has worked with hundreds of models and produced hundreds of thousands of nude-art frames, while exhibiting body-based fine-art works in several European contexts including Berlin, London, Heilbronn, Zurich, Barcelona, Rome, Thessaloniki and Istanbul. Since opening his first studio in Istanbul in 2005, Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m has worked across body-based fine-art projects, photographer education and curator-led production environments. For the past fourteen years in Istanbul, he has transmitted that discipline through concept-led nude art workshops, working with hundreds of photographers across different visual premises, lighting structures and studio situations. The full project page is at <a href=\"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/the-nudes-of-istanbul\/\">burakbulut.org\/the-nudes-of-istanbul<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    <h2 id=\"why-berlin\">Why Berlin: The Opening Chapter of Public Circulation<\/h2>\n\n    <p>Berlin is not used here as a neutral European frame. It is a city in which bodies, migration, sexuality, image culture and artistic freedom are already in active public negotiation. Die Akt Galerie offers a precise context because its programme is dedicated to art-photographic work on the body. The exhibition therefore does not move Istanbul to Berlin as an exotic subject. It brings a practice made in Istanbul into a place where it can be read within a wider conversation on photography, consent, authorship, migration, visibility and the politics of the visible body.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Berlin is the opening chapter of the project's public circulation. After the Berlin presentation, <em>The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em> is intended to continue through book presentations, exhibitions, public conversations, institutional collaborations and academic programming in Turkey and selected European cities.<\/p>\n\n    <h2 id=\"selection\">How the Fourteen Photographers Were Selected<\/h2>\n\n    <p>The fourteen photographers were not selected through an open call. They were selected from a collective field formed across fourteen years of curator-directed photographic production in Istanbul. Selection was based on continuity of participation, technical and visual coherence, distinctness of photographic decision-making and the ability of each photographer's work to contribute to a collective body without dissolving into it. The participating photographers are not assistants or documenters of someone else's scene. They are photographers whose differences in framing, distance, rhythm, restraint and psychological temperature become visible through shared working conditions.<\/p>\n\n    <p>The participating photographers are <strong>Adem Tayfun Eser, Burak \u00d6zcan, \u0130brahim Cem \u00d6zoral, Didem Okumu\u015f, Enis Onur, Mehmet Akif Yal\u0131n, Mehmet Naci Demirkol, Mertkan Herg\u00fcl, Meryem Ayd\u0131n, Neslihan Bilginer, Nevra Topalismailo\u011flu, Ozan Dengiz, Selda Bal Co\u015far and Umut Altun<\/strong>. Five of the fourteen are women. In a field whose recorded exhibition history was, until recently, overwhelmingly male, that number is not a symbolic detail. It changes the internal architecture of the project.<\/p>\n\n    <h2 id=\"authorship\">The Curator's Position and the Question of Authorship<\/h2>\n\n    <p>Across fourteen years, Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m developed the conceptual premises, lighting environments, casting decisions, set structures and material conditions through which the photographs were made. The final image, however, belongs to the individual photographer: to their frame, distance, timing, attention, tonal decision and moment of release. This division of authorship is not treated as a weakness to be hidden. It is the working model itself. Shared conditions do not erase authorship; they make differences in attention, framing, distance, rhythm and psychological temperature more visible.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m's long-term use of controlled light, physical material, model direction, UV-reactive pigments, reflective surfaces, long exposure, optical distortion and studio-built visual premises forms the conceptual and technical ground from which this project developed. His curatorial line was previously presented in <em>LandsNude<\/em> at Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki, in 2015. <em>The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em> extends that curatorial line into a larger publication and exhibition structure.<\/p>\n\n    <h2 id=\"curator-quote\">From the Curator<\/h2>\n\n    <blockquote itemprop=\"abstract\">\n      <p>\"This exhibition is not about Turkey. It is from Turkey. The body in these photographs is real, the light is real, and the people who stood in that light are part of the work's history. The book could not be only a sequence of images; the models also needed to speak from inside the practice.\"<\/p>\n      <cite>\u2014 Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, Curator, Berlin, 2026<\/cite>\n    <\/blockquote>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/article>\n<!-- ====================== END BLOCK 2 ====================== --><!-- ====================== BLOCK 3: PRESS RELEASE - LOWER SECTION ====================== -->\n<article class=\"curatorial-page press-release-page-continued\">\n  <section id=\"six-categories\">\n\n    <h2>Six Categories of the Photographed Body<\/h2>\n\n    <p>The works are organised across six categories that describe different ways in which a body can operate inside a photograph. These are not style labels alone. They name six modes of presence. A photograph is placed according to its primary visual force, not simply according to what appears inside the frame.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"six-categories-grid\">\n\n      <div class=\"category\">\n        <h3>Surface<\/h3>\n        <p>Light, form, contour, volume, curvature and the tactile feeling of skin and photographic surface. Surface names form.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"category\">\n        <h3>Matter<\/h3>\n        <p>Paint, water, fabric, light, reflection, pigment and physical materials acting with the body. Matter names contact.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"category\">\n        <h3>Opacity<\/h3>\n        <p>Tulle, haze, covering, glass, shadow, water or translucent surfaces partially conceal the figure. Opacity names interrupted visibility.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"category\">\n        <h3>Rooms<\/h3>\n        <p>The body in relation to beds, windows, doors, walls and interior space. Rooms names interior pressure.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"category\">\n        <h3>Duration<\/h3>\n        <p>Movement, time, balance, falling, resistance, muscle tension, dance and long exposure. Duration names time and physical tension.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"category\">\n        <h3>Self-Possession<\/h3>\n        <p>The body protects its own presence, boundary, gaze or inwardness. Self-Possession names the body as held by the person within the image.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section id=\"model-authors\">\n\n    <h2>Model-Authors: The Person in the Light Also Speaks<\/h2>\n\n    <p>The accompanying publication includes commissioned texts by three model-authors. Their presence in the book is not decorative and not explanatory. It is structural. Nude photography has historically been written from the position of the photographer, critic or historian. Here, the person who stood in the light also speaks from inside the practice.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Zeynep Renda<\/h3>\n    <p>Zeynep Renda writes from inside a decade-long modelling practice: trust, boundaries, contracts, the need to see the image while posing, the difference between unsafe and professional working conditions, and the shift from being photographed by others toward becoming a self-portrait artist.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Su Ye\u015fil<\/h3>\n    <p>Su Ye\u015fil writes through the body as lived experience: family reaction, shame, gendered norms, body dysphoria, movement, nature, performance, and the refusal to reduce nudity to sexuality. Her position contributes a queer, non-binary and body-political perspective to the publication.<\/p>\n\n    <h3>Marmelat<\/h3>\n    <p>Marmelat, writing under a chosen pseudonym, brings a further position to the project: the experience of a Turkish nude model who has worked for three years within a fine arts faculty, addressing the rarely documented question of academic nude modelling in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Together, the texts reposition the model not as silent subject matter, but as witness, collaborator and author. Zeynep Renda and Su Ye\u015fil write under their own names. Marmelat writes under a chosen pseudonym in line with her preferred level of public visibility.<\/p>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section id=\"ai-and-consent\">\n\n    <h2>Camera-Based Practice in the Age of Synthetic Bodies<\/h2>\n\n    <p>The exhibition opens at a moment when AI-generated and synthetic sexualised body imagery circulates at industrial scale, often without consent and with disproportionate impact on women. Against that backdrop, <em>The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em> insists on the photograph of the nude as a camera-based artistic act: a real body, real light, real materials, a room, a model, and a set of explicit permissions. No exhibition image is AI-generated. AI training and synthetic-image use are explicitly excluded from the project's written rights and consent framework.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Every model who appears in the exhibition is an adult. Every photograph is held under a written model release that grants use for exhibition display, the accompanying photobook, the project website, official press materials and project-related social media announcements. Uses outside this scope require separate written permission from both the photographer and the model. This includes third-party licensing, editorial reuse beyond approved press use, commercial use, institutional reproduction outside the agreed context, and any form of training, fine-tuning, dataset inclusion or input to generative AI systems.<\/p>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section id=\"publication\">\n\n    <h2>The Publication: An Autonomous Book, Not a Catalogue<\/h2>\n\n    <p>The publication is conceived as an autonomous book-length English-language hardcover photobook, planned with ISBN registration, rather than a standard exhibition catalogue. Each of the fourteen participating photographers is represented through a dedicated selection. The book includes the curator's foreword and extended curatorial essay, a historical framing of nude photography in Turkey, the six-category structure, commissioned texts by the three model-authors, and a selected bibliography that situates the project within photographic, theoretical and Turkish art-historical references.<\/p>\n\n    <p>The book is intended for art book circulation, direct distribution, institutional outreach, academic reference, selected library acquisition proposals, and future public programming. Pre-order, publisher, library distribution and institutional purchase information will be announced before the exhibition opening.<\/p>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section id=\"historical-position\">\n\n    <h2>Historical Position: From an Intermittent Tradition to a Sustained Practice<\/h2>\n\n    <p>Fine-art nude photography in Turkey has a documented exhibition history but not a stable institutional tradition. Its public presence has appeared through intermittent solo exhibitions, scattered catalogues, limited critical writing and very little book-length publication. In that history, the nude photograph has often remained either an isolated formal study or a difficult image to place in public view.<\/p>\n\n    <p><em>The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em> does not claim to close that historical gap. It marks the point at which a different conversation becomes possible: a sustained collective practice, fourteen photographers, five women participants, three model-authors, and a body of work made in Istanbul over more than a decade. The project claims something precise: that over fourteen years, a collective practice formed; that the work is serious enough to leave the room in which it was made; and that the public discussion now needs to include the photographers, the models, the conditions and the bodies that made it possible.<\/p>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section id=\"faq\">\n\n    <h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">What is The Nudes of Istanbul?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">It is a group exhibition and accompanying English-language photobook presenting a fourteen-year collective fine-art nude photography practice developed in Istanbul and brought into public view in Berlin at Die Akt Galerie between 3 and 19 July 2026.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">Who curated the exhibition?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">The exhibition and the accompanying book are curated by Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, a Berlin-based photographer, artist and educator who has worked with the nude as an artistic subject for nearly twenty years. He is not the Turkish pop singer of a similar name; he is a photographer and curator.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">Why is it important that all the works were made in Istanbul?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">The location is part of the work's real conditions. The photographs were made in a city where the public visibility of nude imagery has become increasingly difficult, many with Turkish models working in fine-art nude photography. The project does not dramatise this context; it treats it as one of the conditions under which the work was produced.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">Why is the project presented in Berlin?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">Berlin is the opening chapter of the project's public circulation. It offers a context in which the work can be read within wider conversations around photography, consent, authorship, migration, visibility and the body. Die Akt Galerie is dedicated to art-photographic work on the body, which makes it a precise Berlin context for the project.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">How does the project relate to AI-generated imagery?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">At a time when synthetic sexualised body imagery circulates at industrial scale, often without consent, the project insists on camera-based photography: real bodies, real light, real materials and explicit permissions. No exhibition image is AI-generated, and AI training is excluded from the rights and consent framework.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">What are the six categories?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">Surface, Matter, Opacity, Rooms, Duration and Self-Possession. They describe different ways in which the body operates inside a photograph: as form, contact, interrupted visibility, interior pressure, time and physical tension, or a self-held presence.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">Is the publication an exhibition catalogue?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">No. It is an autonomous English-language hardcover photobook, planned with ISBN registration, designed for art book circulation, institutional outreach, academic use and selected library acquisition proposals.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"faq-item\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Question\">\n      <h3 itemprop=\"name\">Who are the model-authors?<\/h3>\n      <div itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n        <p itemprop=\"text\">Zeynep Renda, Su Ye\u015fil and Marmelat. They contribute commissioned texts that reposition the model from silent subject matter to witness, collaborator and author. Marmelat writes under a chosen pseudonym and addresses nude modelling within a Turkish fine arts faculty.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section id=\"press-contact\">\n\n    <h2>Press Contact, Interviews and Image Use<\/h2>\n\n    <p>Press images, photographer biographies, curatorial material, publication previews, advance reading copies and interview availability are available on request. Curators, art critics, editors, publishers, library acquisition teams and academic researchers working in contemporary photography, nude art, Turkish visual culture, gender, image politics, body-based practice, publication histories or collective authorship are particularly welcome.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m is available for written Q&A, email interviews, phone or video interviews, in-person interviews in Berlin by appointment, curator-led walkthroughs, institutional conversations and academic visits. Languages: Turkish and English. German-language interview requests can be arranged with translation support when needed.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Press use of individual images is granted only on request and is conditional on full credit to the named photographer, the exhibition title and, where required, the curator and gallery. Press images must not be materially altered, used outside the approved context, or processed through generative AI tools.<\/p>\n\n    <ul class=\"press-contact-block\">\n      <li><strong>Press contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@burakbulut.info\">info@burakbulut.info<\/a><\/li>\n      <li><strong>Project page:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/the-nudes-of-istanbul\/\">burakbulut.org\/the-nudes-of-istanbul<\/a><\/li>\n      <li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Die Akt Galerie, Krossener Str. 34, 10245 Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n      <li><strong>Getting there:<\/strong> 15-minute walk from S+U Warschauer Stra\u00dfe; short walk from U Samariterstra\u00dfe (U5)<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n\n    <p class=\"press-release-end\">\u2014 ENDS \u2014<\/p>\n\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/article>\n<!-- ====================== END BLOCK 3 ====================== --><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2268\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}