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Tweet The Dolmabahçe Palace Completed in 1856 after 13 years of construction, designed by the Armenian architect Karabet Balyan, the Dolmabahçe Palace is not to be missed. It stands gracefully at the edge of the Bosphorus. Designed in a mixed architectural style called Ottoman Renaissance, in imitation of Buckingham Palace in London and the Louvre [...]

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Tweet Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the filmmaker and photographer from Istanbul recently won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for his work entitled “Three Monkeys” or “3 Maymun” (in Turkish). Read my previous posting about the famous movie director from Istanbul here. I found this movie trailer video of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s newest [...]

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