Author: Ulgen Ozgul

The once named Grand Rue de Pera or Cadde-i Kebir (meaning main road in Ottoman Turkish), today’s İstiklal Avenue in Beyoğlu is currently being reborn from its ashes. With each renovated Art Nouveau building, it is rising higher like a phoenix that is by nature destined to be reborn yet again. One of these historical […]

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The Galata district of Istanbul has plenty to offer to an inquisitive mind that has a special interest in history. You can literally wonder in the maze of its streets and feel like you are travelling in time. The history and the Genoese background of Galata were covered in my previous post that concentrated more […]

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