On a sunny April day in 2015 I decided to go in search of Frenk Caddesi, the old Frank (Foreigners) Street that was…
Right in the heart of İzmir the Kültürpark (also known as the Fuar) stands on the site of the old Greek quarter that…
The story of the Graeco-Turkish population exchange contains within it the seeds for understanding much of what has happened in Turkey over the…
The original Smyrna The oldest settlement of the İzmir area was around Yeşilören, near Bornova. After that a walled town seems to have…
“Go to Bayraklı on the Metro,” the archaeologist at the Altınpark Achaeological Park in Basmane had said to me. “I live there so…
The old Smyrna Population: 3.8…