The Ottoman golden years are usually seen as stretching from 1453, when Sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople from the Byzantines, to 1571, when…
“Cow’s Passage” Anyone fortunate enough to live in İstanbul knows that one of its greatest delights is the glorious Bosphorus (Boğaz in Turkish),…
“Governor” Just beyond Kuzguncuk on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, Beylerbeyi is a delightful, reclusive suburb mainly visited for its palace, the…
Setting for Orhan Pamuk’s novel Kar (Snow) Population: 91,500 Stranded in the north-eastern corner…