Category: Places

The protagonist of the book A Strangeness in My Mind (2014), by the Turkish author and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2006) Orhan Pamuk, is a street vendor who sells Boza. In fact, he sells various types of food in the streets but, apart from his first love whom he has never forgotten, his true devotion […]

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Water supply was always a crucial problem to solve for Istanbul. It still is but, thanks to today’s technology, the solution is relatively easy if not inexpensive. On the other hand, solutions to this problem have been brooded on since antiquity by the rulers of this ancient city and the remains of those remedies continue […]

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