A French archaeological team under Henri de Genouillac excavated at Kish between 1912 and 1914, finding 1400 Old Babylonian tablets which were distributed to the Istanbul Archaeology Museum and the Louvre.

" Kewell's transfer to Galatasaray provoked strong criticism from fans of his former team Leeds United as he was a Leeds player when two of their fans were killed in clashes before a UEFA Cup semi-final against Galatasaray in Istanbul in April 2000.

Excavations in the Inner and Outer Towns were carried out by a joint Turco-Italian team from the Universities of Bologna, Gaziantep and Istanbul under the direction of Professor Nicolò Marchetti.

* In 2000, her coach promoted her to the Bulgarian men's team for the Istanbul Olympiad.

The team lost the first leg in Istanbul 0 – 5 and drew 1 – 1 in home.

* Istanbul 2000, Ukraine board 1, 9 / 14 (+ 4 = 10-0 ), team bronze

Marsh played just three times in two and a half months for the team from Istanbul before he was on the move yet again to Southend United whose newly installed manager was Marsh's ex-Liverpool team-mate Ronnie Whelan.

Çaykur Rizespor, the local football team, play in the Turkish Super League and are local heroes, occasionally capable of defeating even the big Istanbul teams.

Anadolu Efes Spor Kulübü ( English: Anadolu Efes Sports Club ), formerly Efes Pilsen, is a professional basketball team based in the city of Istanbul in Turkey.

U. S. Insurance Executive John Gandy was murdered in his Istanbul office in February 1991 by a well-trained Dev Sol hit team that gained access to the office building by wearing Turkish National Police ( TNP ) uniforms.

The Efes Beverage Group is the primary sponsor of its namesake Turkish basketball team, Efes Pilsen S. K., currently one of two teams in Istanbul and 14 across Europe that receive automatic berths in the Regular Season phase of the continent's principal club competition, the Euroleague.

Despite his young age, he was top-scorer in his first season in the Istanbul League, with 19 goals, and his team Galatasaray won the championship.

* 2nd place European Championships ( Istanbul, Turkey ) team

He led the Armenian national team to the Gold medals in the 2006 ( Turin ), 2008 ( Dresden ) and 2012 ( Istanbul ) Chess Olympics and at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011.

In 1895, his grandfather, Albert ( Avraham ) Ziffer, founded the world's first Jewish sports team in Istanbul.

On 11 May 2011, he converted his penalty in the shootout as the Istanbul team won the Turkish Cup against İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor ( 4 – 3, 2 – 2 after extra time ).

In 1936, Arman transferred to the Istanbul team Güneş.

After Arman retired from active sport in 1950, he coached the Istanbul teams Kasımpaşa, Istanbulspor, Yeşildirek, Beşiktaş and the national team ( 1950, 1957, 1958 and 1959 ).

Olympia has also played in 6 different European countries for a total of 11 seasons including Russia for the Dynamo Moscow Region team ; in Turkey for Mersin Buyuksehir, Istanbul University, Erdemir and the Ceyhan clubs ; in Ibiza, Spain ; Alcamo and Schio, Italy ; Thessaloniki, Greece ; and Yerevan, Armenia.

* 2006-" Those Were the Days " was converted to a chant by Carsi, a supporter group of the Turkish fottbal team Besiktas JK, Istanbul.

The official inauguration in 1911 was done by organizing a game between a Cluj team and Galatasaray Istanbul.

Dutch mystery writer Cornelius Leyden ( Peter Lorre ) is visiting Istanbul.

Another piece it inspired was Dassin's own heist film Topkapi, filmed in France and Istanbul, Turkey with Melina Mercouri and Oscar winner Peter Ustinov.

Gibson's novel includes a character, Peter Riviera, introduced ( like the Mouse ) in Istanbul, with the same holographic projection powers ( although via implants ) as the Mouse in Nova ; but Gibson's character is a psychopath.

This specimen now lies in the treasury of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and is of particular interest since it is not only dated 1526 / 7, but also has the name of the artist who made it, Ahmed Tekelü, on the back of the blade.

Another Italian artist, Michelangelo was also invited to design a bridge for Istanbul.

Semiha Berksoy ( Çengelköy, Istanbul, 1910 – August 15, 2004 ) was one of the first Turkish opera singers, the prima donna of the Turkish opera, a painter, and an internationally acclaimed artist.

The artist has created works on themes such as history, particularly that of Istanbul, and the meeting of Western ideas with Eastern spirituality.

Kutluğ Ataman ( born 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey ) is a filmmaker and contemporary artist.

He later entered the İstanbul Radyosu ( Istanbul Radio Station ) in 1977 as a TSM ( 1 ) artist.

While studying at the Kabataş Erkek Lisesi in Istanbul, his art instructor Ahmet Uzelli, who is also a widely acclaimed artist, was the first to discover his artistic skills.

Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum aka iS. CaM is an independent, artist run museum established in Istanbul in 1997.

He was born in Kadıköy, Istanbul, but lived and worked in Paris, a long time since 1939 as an artist.

The Turkish Room was designed for Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet, by an Armenian artist, David Ohannessian, as a copy of one of the sultan's apartments in the Yeni Mosque in Istanbul.

I called Jules Kroll, the CEO of Kroll Associates, the nation's most acclaimed investigative firm, to ask him if he could inquire, through the extensive range of former law enforcement officials employed by him, whether Karaduman was known to be a drug trafficker in Istanbul.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

Another youth Mehmed found attractive, and who was presumably more accommodating, was Radu III the Fair, the brother of the famous Vlad the Impaler, “ Radu, a hostage in Istanbul whose good looks had caught the Sultan ’ s fancy, and who was thus singled out to serve as one of his most favored pages .” After the defeat of Vlad, Mehmed placed Radu on the throne of Wallachia as a vassal ruler.

During Ottoman times, the Mevlevi produced a number of notable poets and musicians, including Sheikh Ghalib, Ismail Rusuhi Dede of Ankara, Esrar Dede, Halet Efendi, and Gavsi Dede, who are all buried at the Galata Mewlewī Khāna ( Turkish: Mevlevi-Hane ) in Istanbul.

According to investigative journalist Lucy Komisar, Mehmet Ali Ağca had worked with Abdullah Çatlı in the 1979 assassination, who " then reportedly helped organize Ağca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Çatlı was even involved in the Pope's assassination attempt ".

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Samuel Morse received his first ever patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.

Head of operations at OSS Istanbul was a banker from Chicago named Lanning " Packy " Macfarland who maintained the cover story as a banker for the American lend-lease program.

* Jewish refugees who arrived in Istanbul and were assisted in going on to Palestine or other destinations

Samuel Morse received a patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.

This kind of inoculation and other forms of variolation were introduced into England by Lady Montagu, a famous English letter-writer and wife of the English ambassador at Istanbul between 1716 and 1718, who almost died from smallpox as a young adult and was physically scarred from it.

The breakthrough came when a scientific description of the inoculation operation was submitted to the Royal Society in 1724 by Dr Emmanual Timoni, who had been the Montagu's family physician in Istanbul.

The Janissary Tree and its sequels are crime novels set in Istanbul in the 1830's, written by Jason Goodwin featuring Yashim-an eunuch detective, who is resourceful and learned in both the Ottoman culture and that of the West, enjoys the trust of the Sultan and high officials, and prefers to live in a rather bohemian lodging outside the palace complex.

In Istanbul Fleming met the Oxford-educated Nazim Kalkavan, who became the model for Darko Kerim ; Fleming wrote much of Kalkavan's conversations into a notebook, which he then used verbatim in the novel.

Ahmed Asım Bey's predecessor was his son ; Mehmed Nebil Bey ( Born in Istanbul, 1888 ) who also served as a governor during Ottoman Empire in Syria.

' Tex ' was a real person Billy encountered after his arrest, who indeed pulled a gun on him, but that was when they were riding in the police car from the Istanbul airport to the police station after Billy attempted to sneak out of the car while it was stopped at a red traffic light.

For the 1829 campaign on the Danube, Tsar Nicholas dismissed the ailing Wittgenstein and handed the Russian command to his more aggressive compatriot, Count von Diebitsch, who succeeded in capturing Silistra and then surprised the Ottomans with a high-speed drive for the Ottoman capital Constantinople ( Istanbul ), bypassing Shumla and routing an Ottoman army sent to intercept him.

* The most prominent sub-group consists of the descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, who settled in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, in particular Salonica and Istanbul, and whose traditional language is Judaeo-Spanish, sometimes known as Judezmo or Ladino.

During his engagement with the New York Philharmonic, Hans Lange, the son of the last Master of the Sultan's Music in Istanbul, who was later to become conductor at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the legendary founder of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra as a professional ensemble, was his concert master.

During the final years of his reign Hyder Ali also planned to send an embassy to the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III, but it was his son Tipu Sultan who succeeded in making direct contact with Istanbul.

Former standouts from the Nebraska Wrestling Team include 2004 Greco-Roman Olympic Gold Medalist at 120 kg Rulon Gardner and NCAA Champion in 2009 and 2011 Jordan Burroughs who won the 2011 Freestyle World Championships at 74 kg in Istanbul, Turkey.

Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Armand Zildjian was the scion of a cymbals-making tradition that dated back to his ancestor Avedis, who began the company in 1623 in Istanbul.

As a result he developed into a prominent ideologue and advocate of Pan-Turkism during the early republican period, whose writings became widely read and who became one of the leading university professors in Istanbul.

Kanto was heavily influenced by musical theatre, Roma ( gypsy ) music ( which was however often a subject of satire in kanto songs ), and Rum music ( especially the Istanbul Rum who were so fond of urban forms of entertainment ).