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Peace at home, peace in the world!

We never forget you. We remember with respect.

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Camlica

Çamlıca Hill (Turkish: Çamlıca Tepesi), aka Big Çamlıca Hill (Turkish: Büyük Çamlıca Tepesi) to differentiate from the nearby Little Çamlıca Hill (Turkish: Küçük Çamlıca Tepesi), is a hill in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. Situated on the Asian part of the city at 268 m (879 ft) above sea level, Çamlıca Hill has a panoramic view of the southern part of Bosphorus and the mouth of Golden Horn.

Public park on Çamlıca Hill
The hill is a popular visitor attraction. There is historical-designed teahouses, cafes and a restaurant inside a public park with monumental trees, flower gardens and fountains, run by the Metropolitan Municipality.

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Balat

Balat is a modest area with its colorful houses and narrow stone-paved streets. Popular cafes and modern galleries share the same streets as the neighborhood's old-fashioned grocery stores. Ecumenical Greek Patriarchate basilica, synagogues and Byzantine churches; It reflects the cosmopolitan history of the region, home to Jewish, Greek and Armenian communities. Kariye Museum has golden colored mosaics and colorful frescoes.

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Topkapi Palace

The Topkapı Palace (Turkish: Topkapı Sarayı; Ottoman Turkish: طوپقپو سرايى‎, Ṭopḳapu Sarāyı; meaning Cannon Gate Palace), or the Seraglio, is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.

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Pierre Loti

Born to a Protestant family, Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At age 17 he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906. In January 1910 he went on the reserve list. He was in the habit of claiming that he never read books, saying to the Académie française on the day of his introduction (7 April 1892), "Loti ne sait pas lire" ("Loti doesn't know how to read"), but testimony from friends proves otherwise, as does his library, much of which is preserved in his house in Rochefort. In 1876 fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences in Istanbul. The result was the anonymously published Aziyadé (1879), part romance, part autobiography, like the work of his admirer, Marcel Proust, after him.

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Atatürk Arboretum.

In 1949, upon the recommendation of Hayrettin Kayacık, a faculty member of the Faculty of Forestry, to the General Directorate of Forestry, the work to establish an arboretum in an area of 38 hectares near the Büyükdere-Bahçeköy-Kemerburgaz asphalt road began. Camille Guine, one of the Botanical Garden inspectors of Sorbon University, was invited to Istanbul to prepare the project for the Arboretum. The ongoing project work between 1959 and 1961 was left unfinished due to the lack of funds, but the infrastructure and sewing work continued until 1982. In 1982, due to the 100th birthday celebrations of Atatürk, it was named Atatürk Arboretum and gained the status of the Ministry of Forestry Chief of Management.

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What do you want to see in Istanbul?

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From Istanbul, The Capital of World: The Oldest University in Turkey
Istanbul University (Turkish: İstanbul Üniversitesi) is a prominent Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square in Fatih, the capital district of the province, on the European side of the city. Some pre-1923/1930 western sources refer to it as the University of Constantinople, after the previous name of the city.

Location: Istanbul, Turkey
41°00′46.93″N 28°57′49.95″E

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What is your favorite place in Istanbul?

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From Istanbul, The Capital of World: The Obelisk in Sultanahmet
The Obelisk of Theodosius (Turkish: Dikilitaş) is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known today as At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, in the modern city of Istanbul, Turkey) by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.

The obelisk was erected during the 18th dynasty by Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC) to the south of the seventh pylon of the great temple of Karnak. The Roman emperor Constantius II (337–361 AD) had it and another obelisk transported along the river Nile to Alexandria to commemorate his ventennalia or 20 years on the throne in 357. The other obelisk was erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus in Rome in the autumn of that year, and is now known as the Lateran Obelisk. The obelisk that would become the obelisk of Theodosius remained in Alexandria until 390; when Theodosius I (379–395 AD) had it transported to Constantinople and put up on the spina of the Hippodrome there.

Location: Istanbul, Turkey
41°00′21.24″N 28°58′31.43″E

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