* A feature length film, " Istanbul Beneath My Wings " ( İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında, 1996 ) concerns the lives of Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, as witnessed and narrated by Evliyâ Çelebi.

* 1996-İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında ( Istanbul Beneath My Wings )

İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında ( Istanbul Under My Wings, 1996 ) is a film about the lives of Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi, his brother Lagari Hasan Çelebi, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, during the reign of Murad IV, as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi.

With his second feature film, Istanbul Under My Wings ( 1995 ), he also brought an unexpected vivacity to the Turkish Cinema whose film production had decreased dramatically and whose number of viewers had neared to nothing during the past 20 years.

In Steven Moffat's short story " What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow " ( the basis for the Tenth Doctor episode " Blink "), the Ninth Doctor has a rooftop sword fight with two Sontarans in 21st century Istanbul, defeating them with the help of spy Sally Sparrow, apparently before the events of " Rose " in his personal timeline.

Along with hip-hop artists DJ Derezon, the group released their first single, “ My Melody / Istanbul in 1992 to fight racism towards Turks in Germany by combining Western and Turkish cultures ( Hip-Hop Culture ).

Migros presented the Bakkalım ( literally: My Grocery ) store format in the first quarter of 2000, spreading in Istanbul, İzmir and Ankara, they number 700, today.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

The earliest known representation of angels with wings is on what is called the Prince's Sarcophagus, discovered at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of Theodosius I ( 379-395 ).

The next ESF is scheduled to take place in Istanbul in 2010.

This is a natural crossroads, the routes from Ankara to İzmir and from Istanbul to Antalya intersect here and Afyon is a popular stopping-place on these journeys.

Afyon is also an important railroad junction between İzmir, Konya, Ankara and Istanbul.

) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.

The Bosphorus () or Bosporus (,,, Vosporos,, Bosfora ), also known as the Istanbul Strait (), is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia.

There is also very heavy ferry traffic in the Strait of Istanbul, which crosses between European and Asiatic sides of the city.

A cheap way to explore the Bosphorus is offered by the public ferries that traverse the Bosphorus from Eminönü ( ferries dock at the Boğaz İskelesi ) on the historic peninsula of Istanbul to Anadolu Kavağı near the Black Sea, zigzagging between the Rumelian and Anatolian sides of the city.

The Turks called the city Istanbul ( though not officially renamed until 1930 ) and it has remained Turkey's largest and most populous city, although Ankara is now the capital.

( The city is more commonly called Constantinople and is today named Istanbul ).

The mass hysteria caused by these wins in Istanbul raised Hagi's popularity even further with the fans and made French ex-international Luis Fernández to say that " Hagi is like wine, the older it gets, the better it is ".

The Spanish text is preceded by a note claiming that it was translated from Italian by Mustafa de Aranda, an Aragonese Muslim resident in Istanbul.

The lost Spanish manuscript claimed to have been written in Istanbul, and the surviving Italian manuscript has several Turkish features ; so, whether the language of origin was Spanish or Italian, Istanbul is regarded by most students as the place of origin of the present text.

He is the chairman of the Turkish Film Directors Association and is fluent in English. Although he graduated from the medical faculty of Istanbul University and specialised in physiotherapy, he decided to pursue a career as a director, especially after the success of his short film The Scar.

Although the story is set largely in Turkey, the movie was filmed almost entirely at Fort Saint Elmo in Valletta, Malta, after permission to film in Istanbul was denied.

The picture screened at various film festivals, including: the Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina ; the Reykjavik Film Festival, Iceland ; the Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey ; and others.

He composed, performed and acted as Indian music advisor for the Malayalam film Vanaprastham, a 1999 Cannes Film Festival entry which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival ( AFI Fest ) in 1999, and won awards at 2000 Istanbul International Film Festival ( Turkey ), 2000 Bombay International Film Festival ( India ), and 2000 National Film Awards ( India ).

Prior to this, he had a small role in the 1957 Errol Flynn film Istanbul and a pivotal part in the " Comstock Conspiracy " episode of Maverick that same year.

Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express is a 2000 thriller film about a group of international terrorists who, a few days before the start of the new millennium, lure a group of very rich celebrities and businesspeople on board the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul in order to extort large sums of money from them.

These three films, along with the other important works of Ceylan such as Kasaba ( 1997 ) and Mayıs sıkıntısı ( 1999 ) have also won awards at the other major international film festivals ; including the Angers European First Film Festival ( 1997 and 1999 ), Ankara Film Festival ( 2000 ), Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ( 1999, 2002 and 2006 ), Bergamo Film Meeting ( 2001 ), Berlin Film Festival ( 1998 ), Brothers Manaki Film Festival ( 2003 ), Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema ( 2001 ), Cannes Film Festival ( 2003, 2004 and 2006 ), Chicago Film Festival ( 2003 ), Cinemanila Film Festival ( 2003 ), European Film Awards ( 2000 ), Istanbul Film Festival ( 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007 ), Mexico City Film Festival ( 2004 ), Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival ( 2003 ), San Sebastián Film Festival ( 2003 ), Singapore Film Festival ( 2001 ), Sofia Film Festival ( 2004 ), Tokyo Film Festival ( 1998 ) and the Trieste Film Festival ( 2004 ).

* Mohanlal's film Vanaprastham was screened in the " Un Certain Regard " section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and several other International Film Festivals like Hong Kong International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse film festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, American Film Institute, American Film Market, Fukuoka International Film Festival.

In 2004, Moore relocated to Istanbul, Turkey, and composed the soundtrack to the horror film Okul ( The School ) which was subsequently released as a solo record titled Ghost Book.

The film was highly acclaimed by critics at the Istanbul Human Rights film festival in December 2009.

The Istanbul International Film Festival () is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts ( IKSV ), a non-profit organisation.

In the following years, The Istanbul International Filmdays firmly established its position and took its place among the major film festivals of the world with the large number of films shown and the quality and versatility of its program.

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.

Cagdas Bozkurt won an acting prize at the Ankara film festival, while the movie won a viewers ' choice award in Istanbul.

The 2005 documentary film " Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul " by Turkish-German director Fatih Akin emphasizes Koray's influence on the younger generation of musicians that the film features.

Istanbul is again the backdrop for the film – a more stark, contemporary urban landscape than in Serpent ’ s Tale.

* The Useful Information about Istanbul.

* 2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.

Through this process information about the Nazi regime made its way to Macfarland and the OSS in Istanbul and eventually to Washington.

At a much earlier period the Greeks had established on the coast the colonies of Cius ( modern Gemlik ); Chalcedon ( modern Kadıköy ), at the entrance of the Bosporus, nearly opposite Byzantium ( modern Istanbul ) and Heraclea Pontica ( modern Karadeniz Ereğli ), on the Euxine, about 120 miles ( 190 km ) east of the Bosporus.

Arrian was born of Greek ethnicity in the coastal town of Nicomedia ( present-day Izmit ), the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, in what is now north-western Turkey, about 70 km from Byzantium ( later Constantinople, now Istanbul ).

* The Useful Information about Istanbul.

He later went to Palestine, where he arrived about 1535, having en route spent several years at Salonica ( 1533 ) and Istanbul.

He grew up in Istanbul and learned about leadership from his father.

Kınalıada ( meaning " Henna Island " in Turkish, named after the colour of its earth ) is the nearest island to the European and Asian side of Istanbul, about to the south.

Many of the conflicting versions about the origin of the " Spoonmaker's Diamond ", a major treasure of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, link it with Ali Pasha – though their historical authenticity is doubtful.

It was released direct-to-video in 2006, and was about a young systems analyst who arrives in Istanbul for her new job to find that her identity has been stolen.

It is located at the Gulf of İzmit ( the ancient Gulf of Astacus ) in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia.

The Ottoman chronicler İbrahim Peçevi reports in his writings ( 1642-49 ) about the opening of the first coffeehouse in Istanbul:

The ANA employs about 250 persons, of which 180 are journalists, and has offices in Brussels, Istanbul, Nicosia and Berlin and correspondents in Washington, New York, Montreal, Melbourne, London, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Belgrade, Skopje etc.

This solution of the difficulty was brought about by Lord Dufferin, then British ambassador at Istanbul, who had been sent to Egypt as high commissioner to adjust affairs and report on the situation.

Akçakoca is both a town and district of Düzce Province, in the Black Sea region of Turkey, located about 200 km east of Istanbul.

Other estimates of the size of the modern Karaite movement put the number at 4, 000 Karaites in the United States, about 100 families in Istanbul, and over 40, 000 in Israel, the largest communities being in Ramlah, Ashdod and Beer-Sheva.

There are about 80 Karaites living in Istanbul, Turkey, where the only Karaite synagogue in Turkey, the Kahal haKadosh Bene Mikra, is still functional in the Hasköy neighborhood in the European part of the city.

* Information about the church on a site about the Bulgarians in Istanbul

Turkish armies included archers until about 1591 ( they played a major role in the Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ), and flight archery remained a popular sport in Istanbul until the early 19th century.

In 2005 he directed a documentary about the Istanbul music scene, Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, which includes musicians such as Ceza, Sezen Aksu, Aynur Doğan and Brenna MacCrimmon.