Imagine Istanbul – travel, photography, news, films, book, ideas from Istanbul, Turkey
With the launch of ImagineIstanbul.com as a blog in January, 2008, I think I should provide some technical, historical background the existence of ImagineIstanbul as a blog. ImagineIstanbul.com was originally launched in 2004 and ran for about one year. Then, due to circumstances beyond my control (or maybe they were in my control), I lost [...]
The Café by the New Mosque was called the Café Efsane. Whenever friends were going to Istanbul, I would ask if they would go and say hello to the waiters of the Café Efsane and maybe look for the little boy Yilmaz. Some of my friends took my photos with them to give to the [...]
So we took a taxi to Ortaköy to walk around the market by the edge of the Bosphorus. When we got a taxi, Yilmaz was the perfect little gentleman. He treated me like a princess, opening the taxi door for me, gesturing like a fine gentleman that this was our taxi to Ortaköy and that [...]
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