“Three Istanbul streets make world’s top 10 for rent hikes in 2014” Istanbul news roundup…

According to data in the annual real estate report of international real estate consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield, Istanbul’s İstiklal Avenue, Bağdat Avenue and Abdi İpekçi Avenue ranked in the top 10 streets for rent increases in the world.
Istanbul’s new creative hub retains Ottoman flavour – for now

Like the rest of Istanbul, Fener-Balat is changing. Unlike much of the rest of the city, though, the changes don’t – yet – involve condominiums and
Istanbul Film Festival to honor veteran filmmakers

The Istanbul Film Festival will screen Atadeniz’s 1968 film “Maskeli 5ler” (The Masked 5), a rare Western in Turkish cinema, inspired by Hollywood’s .
World’s 4th most expensive home in İstanbul bought by Qatari emir for wife

The Emir’s family is claimed to have seen the mansion while touring Istanbul as the Emir was meeting with Turkish officials earlier this month, with Emir
Mirrored – a Photographic Dialogue Between Sydney andIstanbul

Markus Andersen is back at it again on the streets of Sydney, Australia… but this time he has teamed up with fellow street photographer Elif .
The Syrian odyssey in Istanbul

As the Syrian war enters its fifth year, Turkey’s economic centre, Istanbul, has seen the population of distressed Syrians swell. The patience of the local ..
Photographer documents İstanbul’s little-known treasures: libraries

Seeing this fact, photographer Ümit Oğuz Göksel embarked on a quest to documentİstanbul’s libraries, and the results of his endeavor will go on ..
Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner is first to film insideIstanbul’s Blue Mosque

The Water Diviner is believed to be the first feature film to shoot scenes insideIstanbul’s famous Blue Mosque, which gained its name from its blue tiles
Istanbul Jazz Festival announces program

The 22nd Istanbul Jazz Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), will be held from June 27 to July 15. The festival will
Mosques, markets: An Istanbul primer

There are many ways to describe Istanbul: exotic, teeming with life, a tourist mecca, a business city, an amazing historical city. Turkey’s largest city .
Historic fact or stories related on a winter’s night around a camp fire? There’s no end to Istanbul’s extraordinary life
Pro-ISIS magazine in Istanbul bombed

ISTANBUL (CNN) — A bomb blast ripped through the Istanbul offices of a radical, pro-ISIS magazine killing a writer and wounding its editor-in-chief as
A tribute to İstanbul’s bygone theaters

Here’s a look at İstanbul’s major theaters of old that used to be important milestones in Turkey’s cultural history, based on the inventory compiled by …
Best Street Style at Istanbul Fashion Week Fall 2015

Burcin Unaldi poses wearing a dress by Gulnur Gunes and a hang bag by Chuchu during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Istanbul FW15 on March 16,

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