Trici Venola's wonderful Istanbul drawings and reflections at her Drawing On Istanbul blog Plein Air drawing in Turkey blogging about the site and the process.

The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum () is a museum located in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.

How many mosques are there in Istanbul?

Ozgur Gurbuz, from Istanbul, says

Biography Mağden was born in 1960 in Istanbul.

Terim played 11 years for the Istanbul club.

It is located in the Fındıklı neighborhood of İstanbul, Turkey.

The event was held in Istanbul, Turkey.

There are around three thousand mosques in Istanbul.

The conquest of İstanbul antedates the discovery of America.

The main competitive events were held at the Istanbul Expo Center.

The Treaty of Constantinople was a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Greece signed on 4 December 1897 following the Greco Turkish War of 1897.

Beijing becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Istanbul.

Istanbul Province () is a province located in north west Turkey.

Thus Eminönü is the main tourist destination in Istanbul.

The buildings constructed in Istanbul during the period between the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453 and the construction of the Istanbul Bayezid II Mosque are also considered works of the early period.

The 2003 Istanbul bombings were four truck bomb attacks carried out on November 15, 2003 and November 20, 2003, in Istanbul, Turkey, leaving 57 people dead, and 700 wounded.

ozzgurbuz Peace is the only way noWar savasahayir from Istanbul.

Mehmet Barış Manço (born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço 2 January 1943 1 February 1999), known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and television producer.

Biography Kutan graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1952.

Following his studies at Galatasaray High School in Istanbul, from 1912 to 1914 Ben Zvi studied law at Istanbul University, together with the future Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion.

In 1908 he journeyed to Istanbul where he met the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II.

Ministry of the Navy Following the Armistice of Mudanya on 11 October 1922, the former Ottoman Ministry of the Navy ( Bahriye Nazırlığı ) building in the Kasımpaşa quarter of Istanbul, on the Golden Horn, became the headquarters of the Istanbul Naval Command on 14 November 1922.

Edirne (Adrianople) was the Ottoman capital between 1365 and 1453, when Istanbul (Constantinople) became the new capital, and it is here that we witness the final stages in the architectural development which culminated in the construction of the great mosques of Istanbul.

Getting more and more here. Thousands protest against war on Syria in Istanbul. Photo shared by zappika on Twitter

The Yavuz Selim Mosque, also known as the Selim I Mosque and the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque () is an Ottoman imperial mosque located at the top of the 5th Hill of Istanbul, Turkey, in the neighborhood of Çukurbostan, overlooking the Golden Horn.

From time to time, Istanbul and Antalya also host the Turkish leg of the F1 Powerboat Racing championship while the Turkish leg of the Red Bull Air Race World Series, an air racing competition, takes place above the Golden Horn in Istanbul.

One part of it is rooted in Istanbul, with strong Turkish roots, but the other part travels the world, connecting to different cultures.

Soon after Istanbul she embarked on two more tours of the United States, and performed in New York, Detroit and Chicago.

Marmara University (Turkish Marmara Üniversitesi ) is a public university in the Fatih district of Istanbul, in Turkey.

Kenan Doğulu () (born on 31 May 1974 in Cihangir, Beyoğlu, Istanbul) is a Turkish pop musician.

More than 5,000 protesters took to the streets of Istanbul against a possible war with Syria.

In the final vote, a head to head contest between Tokyo and Istanbul, Tokyo was selected by 60 votes to 36.

The master architect of the classical period, Mimar Sinan, was born in 1492 in Kayseri and died in Istanbul in the year 1588.

I decided to go to Istanbul because it was a big city and I thought that finding a job there might be easier for me.

From 1950 to 1953 he studied decorative arts in Istanbul at the Fine Arts Academy while launching his musical career.

Now those of you who have been to Istanbul have probably seen Topkapi Palace, which was the residence of Ottoman sultans for more than 400 years.

For security reasons, the place of trial was transferred from Eyüp in Istanbul to a court in the far away city of Trabzon on the northeastern Black Sea.

Kenan Doğulu and Beren Saat became engaged on 23 February 2014 at Istanbul and were married on 29 July 2014 at Los Angeles, US.

A sign at the Istanbul anti war protest which reads Hands off Syria, shared by Cherine_89 on Twitter. Reposted with permission.

Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü (, Fenerbahçe Sports Club), also known as Fenerbahçe and Fener, is a professional football team based in Istanbul, Turkey, and a branch of the larger Fenerbahçe Sports Club.

During World War II, the naval schools were temporarily relocated from Istanbul to Mersin for security reasons and conducted education and training activities in this city.

The Taksim Square massacre relates to the incidents on 1 May, 1977, the international Labour Day on Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey.

And since my husband is in Istanbul, I started commuting between Arizona and Istanbul the two places on the surface of earth that couldn't be more different.

During the early stages of the Turkish War of Independence, these two gunboats did not return to Istanbul, despite heavy pressure from the Ottoman government and the Allies.