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Last Friday we got to host a Delicate Pleasures dinner at a special location in Emirgan and filled one very long table with friends, familiar faces and some people we’d been meaning to meet.

Chef Sinan Karaahmet (@karaahmetov ) and Chef Cihan Kesmez ( @chnksmz8 ) took care of the pleasures, and delicate they were.

Smoked mussel butter with charred lemon, ember-roasted plums over buffalo yoghurt, bacon-wrapped prawn swimming in shellfish bisque, bluefish with shiitake and many, many more reasons to keep passing plates around. Glasses turned white, conversations travelled across the table and somewhere between one course and the next, new acquaintances started feeling a little less new.

A big thank you to Beylerbeyi for giving Centre a home for the night, to Sinan for feeding us so beautifully, and to our wonderful community for showing up hungry, curious and ready to stay a little longer than planned. 🤍

Until the next table! by @centremag

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Nobody knows exactly how Istanbul's parrots got here. A cargo ship on the Bosphorus. An overturned smuggling truck. Pet owners who got tired of the noise. There's even a legend that they arrived fleeing the first Gulf War.

Today, more than 5,000 Rose-ringed and Alexandrine Parakeet call Istanbul home. Halfway around the world, the story runs in reverse. A South American parakeet has been busy colonizing the rest of the world. Barcelona alone has counted thousands of them nesting in its parks. Spain has since banned keeping them as pets entirely.

So how did thousands of birds that nobody ordered end up defining skylines on opposite sides of the world?

Read the full article at centremag.com 🦜 by @centremag

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What if the cities of the future aren't shaped by history, but by intention?

Around the world, a new generation of cities is being built from scratch. They promise cleaner infrastructure, smarter planning and solutions to problems older cities were never designed to solve.

But they also pose a question that's much harder to answer.
Can you design a city's soul, or is that something only time, contradiction and the people who inhabit it can create?

Our latest feature explores what these ambitious projects might tell us about the future of urban life—and what they never can.

Read the full feature at centremag.com. by @centremag

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What determines where you can go?

For most people, the answer is simple: the passport they were born with.

But a growing global industry is changing that equation. Around the world, investment visas, residency programs and second citizenships are giving those with sufficient capital new ways to access borders, opportunities and mobility.

The result is a new geography of citizenship… One where some inherit a single passport, while others strategically assemble several.

Our latest feature explores how citizenship is evolving from a legal status into something increasingly treated as an asset—and what that shift could mean for the future of borders, identity and belonging.

Read the full feature at centremag.com. by @centremag

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The family business doesn't usually fail because of business. More often, they unravel because of old rivalries, unclear succession plans, disagreements over ownership, or one sibling feeling overlooked. An inheritance passes down wealth, yes, but it also reshapes relationships.

To navigate that transition, many ultra-wealthy families turn to a little-known field called family governance. Rather than focusing on investments or tax strategy, family governance is about preserving the family itself.

Advisors in this field facilitate difficult conversations, prepare future generations for the responsibilities of ownership, mediate conflict, and help families establish governance systems that can last for decades.

One of the most interesting tools they use is the family constitution. Despite the name, it's usually not a legally binding document. Instead, it's a shared framework that records a family's values, expectations and decision-making processes, covering everything from leadership and ownership to conflict resolution and long-term stewardship.

Some of the world's longest-lasting business dynasties have adopted formal governance structures like these, including family councils, education programs for future generations and constitutional-style frameworks designed to answer one question:

How do you preserve a family after you've preserved the fortune?

We're diving deeper into the hidden world of family governance in our third issue, coming very soon. by @centremag

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The industry that preaches the 100-year life is still marketing like it ends at 50.

The longevity industry has built a compelling story about longer, healthier, more active lives. It has the science, the data, and the cultural momentum. What it has not done is follow its own logic. People over 55 control more than half of global spending and are roughly 10 percentage points more likely to stay loyal to everyday brands than the average consumer. They are, by any commercial measure, the most valuable audience in the market. They receive less than 10% of marketing investment.

If that does not make you uncomfortable, it should.

Read the full article at centremag.com by @centremag

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In 1880s Japan, firework artisans made things that lasted only seconds. They called them hanabi meaning fire and flower, often translated poetically as "fire flowers”. A name that already understood the thing would disappear.

There were no cameras capable of holding onto a burst of light. So artists did what cameras could not. They watched, remembered and drew. What remains are not records of the fireworks themselves, but interpretations of them.

These illustrations, discovered through The Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev) became the starting point for this piece. Drawn from firework catalogues digitized by the Yokohama City Library and English-language advertisements for Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, they carried forward something that was never meant to last.

The artists were trying to preserve something that could not be preserved. And somehow, they did.
That kind of devotion to a fleeting thing is worth returning to.

Discover the full collection at The Public Domain Review. Read the full feature on our website. 🎇 by @centremag

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For a long time, economic forecasting assumed the future would behave like the past. Stable systems. Predictable disruptions. Models that could turn uncertainty into numbers.

But what happens when the structure itself starts shifting?

In this piece, Morten Nyboe Tabor explores why economists and central banks are beginning to move away from single predictions and toward scenarios: multiple possible futures shaped by war, supply chain collapses, inflation shocks, and structural change.
Not because forecasting disappeared. Because certainty did.

Read the full piece on our website. by @centremag

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The saying goes, "April showers bring May flowers". But May brought to us another lovely Centre gathering justified by the long awaited spring weathers.

And like every memorable spring gathering, we were joined by little bottles filled with spring flavor made by the talents of @geyikcocktailbar team.

@nigarzeynep 's selective tunes kept us moving all evening and not surprisingly carried us way past our intended gathering time.

We'll keep it short: it was perfect.

Thank you! For every savory sip, every groovy beat & every intriguing conversation.

We'll be back with more - as per usual. Stay tuned, stay curious🤍 by @centremag

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In her essay, Baroness Dambisa Moyo turns her attention to the deeper structural currents shaping the decade ahead.

Slowing growth and trade tensions may dominate headlines, but beneath them lie longer-term forces redrawing the global map. Demographics shifting at historic speed. AI altering the balance between capital and labor. Critical resources tightening. Financial risk appetite diverging across continents.

A member of the UK House of Lords and a global economist who has advised governments, corporations, and investors for decades, Moyo brings a vantage point to the questions at hand. Her perspective sits at the intersection of policy, markets, and long-term strategy.

Baroness Moyo frames these developments as signals. Signals that the architecture of the global economy is being reconfigured in real time.

“The best-prepared decision-makers will be those who recognize the stakes early and adjust accordingly.”

Read the full analysis at centremag.com by @centremag

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