“Kasım Paşa” Market: Sunday (Toprak Tabya Sokak, Küçük Piyale) Named after Kasım Paşa (? – 1543), one of Süleyman the Magnificent’s commanders who…
The Ottoman golden years are usually seen as stretching from 1453, when Sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople from the Byzantines, to 1571, when…
The Golden Horn is an estuarine inlet that carves a 7km path from the Alibey and Kağıthan rivers to the Bosphorus, passing between…
Pavilion of the Mirrored Poplars. Closed Mondays, admission TL130, TL40 for Turks. Garden only TL20. (2024) The small late Ottoman palace at Aynalıkavak…
It being another lovely sunny day, I thought I’d take the ferry up the Golden Horn to Hasköy and check to see whether…