A few hundred metres from the bustling Taksim Square in Istanbul, the sound of jackhammers reverberates through the street: demolitions in the nearby neighbourhood of Tarlabasi are under way despite ...

Some cities whisper their past. Istanbul shouts it from the rooftops, the domes, and the water. Nowhere is this more vivid than along the Bosphorus—the strait that quite literally divides continents ...

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A transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul is an eclectic mix of both cultures. In a city where the West meets the East; as a traveller, ...