The wine from Kirk Kilise is very good. However, most Turks don’t drink wine—they are mostly teetotalers. So, the wine is taken to the...
The sky was gray, and the wind howled. The land looked dull and lifeless. The Turkish villages were messy, made up of mud huts....
We talked about many different things. Every once in a while, a general or colonel was called over to join the conversation. However, as...
Serene Dwellings
Kaleiçi, renowned for its distinctive houses, embodies a seamless connection between humanity and nature. The old city life ensures that no house obstructs...
The Matryoshka of Antalya
Layers of History
Just like the Russian toy Matryoshka, the district of Antalya known as Kaleiçi is a unique blend of various...
Hotels Embrace Change
Aysel Akkaynak, the Sales Director of Grand Hotel Gülsoy, highlights the shift in the hotel industry over the past four years. Previously,...
This new Rome on the Bosporus had the great advantage of having been built from scratch. Old Rome had to undergo considerable urban renewal...
Constantinople’s other great advantage was the deimperialization, so to speak, of emperors. The word we use in English, “emperor,” derives through French from the...
Constantine, the first Christian emperor, saw the possibilities in the place. He was brilliant in both his plan for the city and its execution....
A sober contemporary of that family, the businessman Dioscoros from the modest city of Aphrodito (Aphrodite’s town, back when the landscape was given Greek...
