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22 unusual facts about İstanbul


Cenk Ünnü

Cenk Ünnü (born 1967 in Istanbul) is the drummer of the heavy metal band Mezarkabul (also known as Pentagram).

Chalcedony

The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek town Chalkedon in Asia Minor, in modern English usually spelled Chalcedon, today the Kadıköy district of Istanbul.

Deniz Seki

After being kept in detention for two days, she was released without charge, however, on February 23, 2009 Deniz Seki was rearrested by Drug Squad officers and detained in Zekeriyaköy Gendarmerie station at the request of the public prosecutor.

Direc-t

In 2004 the band performed in the Rock Istanbul Festival which was broadcast live from Dream TV.

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In addition, Direc-t performed in many bars in Istanbul such as Line, Kemancı, Life Bar, Bronx, Gitar Bar, Vox, Yeni Melek Gösteri Merkezi ("Yeni Melek Show Center"), Stüdyo Live and also in other cities such as Ooze Bar (İzmir), Saklıkent (Ankara), Bar Fly (Ankara) and Doors (Eskişehir).

Edgar James Banks

Banks purchased many more cuneiform inscriptions from a dealer in Istanbul.

Forum of the Ox

The Forum lay along the southern branch of the Mese Odós (the main street of the city), in the valley of the Lycus creek, between the seventh and the third hills of Constantinople.

Hippodrome of Constantinople

Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving.

Isaac Karo

Although the details of Rabbi Karo's life afterwards are unclear, it is apparent that he lived Istanbul in Turkey.

Istanbul-Pythio railway

In 1971, the State railways built a new line from Pehlivanköy to the Bulgarian border at Kapıkule.

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Pamuk's favourite Istanbuli writers, who meant inspiration for him and also became figures of his book, are Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Ahmet Rasim and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

Kabataş

Kabataş, Istanbul, a quarter in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey

London Somalia Conference

A follow-up meeting is scheduled to be held in June 2012 in Istanbul.

Louis Hartz

He retired in 1974 due to ill health and spent his last years living in London, New Delhi, New York, then Istanbul, where he died.

M. K. Perker

Kutlukhan Perker (born November 2, 1972, Istanbul) is one of the most prominent and internationally recognized artists of his native Turkey.

New Palace

The former name of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul after its completion (in Turkish: Yeni Sarayı)

Philadelphion

The other passed through the quarters of Şehzadebaşı and Fatih until reaching the quarter of Edirnekapı (formerly the Gate of Charisius).

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The Philadelphion was a public square located in Constantinople (today's Istanbul).

Rudolf Belling

He succeeded in saving his son and emigrated once again, in 1937, this time to Istanbul, Turkey.

Sarıyer

The largest of these developments is the new village of Zekeriyaköy, which is now one of the most expensive residential areas in Istanbul.

Vasily Kamensky

On his release, he traveled to Istanbul and Tehran; the impressions from this Eastern trip would leave a mark on his later work.

Zekeriyaköy

Zekeriyaköy, Istanbul, a village in the district of Sarıyer, Istanbul Province


2008 Turkish Grand Prix

This decision was taken by the FIA after being informed by Honda's Formula One team CEO, Nick Fry, that Super Aguri, who used Honda engines and Honda-derived chassis, would not be racing at Istanbul Park.

Ahmet Muhtar Merter

Ahmet Muhtar Merter, also known as Ahmed Muhtar Bey (? İstanbul - 1959; Istanbul) was a Turkish irregular fighter in the Turkish War of Independence.

Alfredo Jaar

His work has been shown extensively around the world, notably in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006).

Ali Yıldırım Koç

Ali Koç is a Rotarian and a member of the Istanbul Open Sea Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club.

Alstom Metropolis

The trains are in service in 22 major cities around the world, representing more than 3000 cars, including Singapore, Shanghai, Budapest, Warsaw, Nanjing, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Istanbul and Santo Domingo.

Anadolu Agency

After Istanbul came under occupation on March 16, 1920 and the Ottoman parliament was annulled, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk called on all provinces to hold elections for a new parliament to be established in Ankara.

Avraham Elmalih

Born in Jerusalem, Elmalih was educated in a yeshiva and an alliance school before studying at the Archeological Institute, before working as a teacher in his home city, Istanbul, Jaffa and Damascus.

Ayub Thakur

Dr. Ayyub Thakur also attended the 1991 Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign minister meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the 1993 OIC summit meeting in Dakar, Senegal and World tactics did not yield the desired result.

Baron Heinrich Karl von Haymerle

He served in the diplomatic corps at Athens, Dresden, and Frankfurt as Secretary of Legation; and served as ambassador in Copenhagen (1864), took part in negotiating the Treaty of Prague (1866), and from Berlin went to Constantinople (1868), Athens (1869), The Hague (1872), and in 1877 to the Italian court.

Blood and Oil in the Orient

It concludes with father and son fleeing the Bolshevik takeover of Baku in 1920 via Tiflis and Batumi, Georgia, across the Black Sea to Istanbul.

Carmen Moral

Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich (Vienna), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul), and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru.

Çetin Emeç

Çetin Emeç was assassinated in the morning of March 7, 1990 in front of his home in Suadiye, Istanbul as he got in his car to go to his office.

Charles Duchaussois

It was 1969 at the zenith of the hippie movement, from Marseille to Beirut, from Istanbul to Baghdad, taking long detours in India, by boat, on foot, in car, Charles bit by bit got closer to Kathmandu, the height of drugs and hippies.

Cihangirzade İbrahim Bey

On 13 April 1919, the capital of the republic, Kars, was occupied by the British troops under the command of General William M. Thomson and after a period of local resistance he was arrested by the British forces and sent, through Batum and İstanbul, to a one-year exile in Malta (see Malta exiles) together with 11 members of his cabinet.

Edip Cansever

Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cansever attended Trade Academy for some time, and worked as an antiquity salesman in Grand Bazaar, Istanbul.

Evliya Çelebi Way

(Heavy urbanisation prevents the Way entering either Istanbul, from where he set out in 1671, or Bursa).

Gülderen Çelik

She was born the youngest of five children in the Mecidiyeköy neighborhood of Istanbul.

Hagop Kazazian Pasha

A bachelor all his life, Hagop Kazazian lived in the Yeniköy district of Istanbul with his mother.

Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan

Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was a professor of mathematics, geography, and calligraphy at the Robert College of Istanbul, known for designing the signature of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey.

Haldun Alagaş Sports Hall

It is in usage of sport teams such as Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Men's Volleyball and Men's Handball Teams and Tekelspor basketball team.

IEL

Istanbul High School, Istanbul (Erkek) Lisesi, a highschool in Istanbul, Turkey

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb

He is surprised to find that the Nazis, below Istanbul, have uncovered the ruins of Belisarius' sunken city in search for the final piece of the Mirror.

Islam in Uzbekistan

The work of Ali Qushji (d. 1474), who worked at Samarqand and then Istanbul, is seen as a late example of innovation in Islamic theoretical astronomy and it is believed he may have possibly had some influence on Nicolaus Copernicus due to similar arguments concerning the Earth's rotation.

İstasyon Academy of Fine Arts

İstasyon Academy of Fine Arts (in Turkish İstasyon Sanat Akademisi ) is a private art institution founded by architect Ömer Ferda Düzenli and artist/painter Hülya Düzenli in İstanbul, Fındıklı in 1980.

John Burgan

In Berlin, Burgan worked as a writer, director and editor and also taught documentary and media production at the Berlin University of the Arts and at workshops at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg and the Bilgi University, Istanbul.

Kâni Karaca

He came to Istanbul in 1950 and worked with Sadettin Kaynak, a major composer and performer of Turkish music at the time.

Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım

In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa.

Kefeli Mosque

All the Latin, Greek and Jewish inhabitants who lived in Caffa ("Caffariotes" or, in Turkish, Kefeli) were then deported to Istanbul and relocated to this quarter.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

On the eve of World War II Istanbul was a safe meeting place for many exiled Europeans, a common destination for exiled Germans, and the Schüttes encountered artists such as the musicians Béla Bartók or Paul Hindemith.

Mustafa Akaydın

Mustafa Akaydın was born in 1952 and received his primary and secondary education in Ankara and Istanbul.

MV Kalia

Originally called the Bitten Theresa, construction on the ship began on February 28, 1998, when its keel was laid in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.

My Sweet Canary

In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and Mehtap Demir, three young musicians, look for the most famous singers of rebetiko and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of Roza Eskenazi, as they travel between London, Jerusalem, Corinth, Istanbul, Athens and Salonika.

Neşâtî

Neşâtî first become affiliated with the Mevlevi order as a disciple of the shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede, first in Gelibolu in Thrace and then in Beşiktaş in Istanbul.

Ömer Ali Kazma

His work was shown in the 7th and 10th Istanbul Biennial (2001, 2010), Tokyo Opera City (2001), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (İstanbul, 2003), Cetinje Biennial (2004), İstanbul Modern (2004), 2nd Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions (2005), 9th Havana Biennial (Cuba, 2006) and San Francisco Art Institute (2006).

Pera Palace Hotel

In Ernest Hemingway's short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, the main character, writer Harry, stays at the Pera Palace hotel while serving in the military during the Allied occupation of Constantinople (Istanbul) in World War I.

Rabia Haseki Sultan

In 1691, at the age of about nineteen, she was captured by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids into this region and taken as a slave, probably first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major centre of the slave trade, then to Istanbul, and was selected for the Sultan’s harem.

Şakir Eczacıbaşı

He died on January 24, 2010 in Istanbul and was laid to rest at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

Semih Kaplanoğlu

In 1984, Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked for a couple of years as a copywriter for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam.

Skënder Rizaj

He has done extensive research in Turkish Archives in Istanbul, and the British Library in London.

Sümer Tilmaç

After the restaurant in Istanbul was closed; he is sparing his time to his farm in Serik, Antalya (Melek's Farm) where he and his wife serves local Cuisine along with local arts to visitors.

Sütlü Nuriye

In the times of great horror and supply-shortages inflicted by the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, the inventor Şafak Dilken, who was working at the most famous baklava producer in Istanbul, used milk instead of sorbet, and hazelnuts instead of pistachios and came up with a new dessert.

Thomas Whittemore

In 1948, he and Paul A. Underwood, from the Byzantine Institute of America and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, sponsored a programme for restoration of the Chora Church in Istanbul.

Transport in Kyrgyzstan

Manas International Airport near Bishkek is the main international terminal, with flights to Moscow, Tashkent, Dushanbe, Istanbul, Baku and London.

Üzeyir Garih

Being one of the best engineers of the country, he started his career at the İstanbul agency of Carrier Corporation in the field of heating, vantilation and air conditioning.

William Henry Stowe

He reached Constantinople (now Istanbul) before the end of February, and was soon at Scutari (now Üsküdar), whence he moved to Balaklava.

Yedi Kule

the Yedikule neighborhood, where the fortress is located, in the district of Fatih in Istanbul, Turkey.

Zeynep Ahunbay

Dr. Ahunbay's best-known works are the restoration of the Zeyrek Mosque with the art historians the professors Metin Ahunbay and Robert Ousterhout, as well as the restoration of Istanbul's city walls.