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The article discusses the advent of big-budget televisions shows and films that depict the Ottoman era in Turkey. It states that the epic film "Conquest 1453," which shows cultural triumphalism, has become the highest-grossing film in the country's history. According to film director Melis Behlil, the Ottoman revival is good for the country's pride and has captured the existing existing psyche.

Emre Ozberk, 38, is a Turkish architect who works for a large firm but has developed an interest in the tiny. While experimenting with bonsai, the Japanese technique of pruning tree and shrub seedlings into delicate miniatures, he became fascinated, he said, ''by the space underneath the trees,'' rather than the tree itself. And so he began making dwarf landscapes, crafting homey accouterments -- a white picket fence, a slatted bench -- and tucking them under boxwood, juniper or Japanese holly ''trees'' and a lawn of baby tears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]