“Axe Harbour” The upmarket Bosphorus suburb of Baltalımanı is named after Kaptan–ı Derya Baltaoğlu Süleyman Bey, a 15th-century admiral who took his nickname…
Walking around Turkish towns you may occasionally see men with a mother rabbit and several babies sitting on a box beside little slips…
As all over the world, traditional handicrafts are dying an ever faster death in Turkey as the life-style they were part of gives…
Time has not been kind to Kağıthane, a messy suburb at the inland end of the Golden Horn that was once a famous…
“Mecid’s place” (presumably Abdülmecid’s) Poor old Mecidiyeköy has an unenviable location at the north-easterly end of Şişli’s Halaskargazi Caddesi where it meets up…
4.Levent is not an area most non-business visitors to İstanbul would normally think of visiting. However, on the quiet it is home to…
“Linden trees” On a sunny day in spring it’s well wort heading inland from the waterfront at Beşiktaş along Ortabahçe Caddesi to find…
“Eagle” Old names: Kartalimen, Kartalimin On the Asian shore of the Sea of Marmara, the İstanbul suburb of Kartal sits between Maltepe and…
Caddebostan is a middle-class residential suburb on the Asian side of İstanbul beween…
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