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Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition.
The first book was donated by the Köprülü family, and the number of available books continued to increase with further donations and purchases. Of all the donations to the library, those by Köprülü Mehmet Pasha , Fazil Ahmet Pasa , Haci (Hafiz) Ahmet Pasha , and Mehmet Asim Bey were among the most substantial.
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Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. [2] One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
6 October: October 2016 Istanbul bombing. 10 December: December 2016 Istanbul bombings. 22 December: Eurasia Tunnel opened. 2017 1 January: 2017 Istanbul nightclub shooting. 9 July: 2017 March for Justice. 29 October: F3 (Istanbul Metro) line opened. 15 December: M5 (Istanbul Metro) line opened. Population: 15,029,231 (estimate, urban ...
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In the Turkish edition of National Geographic Magazine in 2002, and later in the book Istanbul: Memories and the City, writer Orhan Pamuk identified Koçu as "homosexual." In a response to Pamuk's work, the historian Murat Bardakçi also identified Koçu as homosexual, but stated he belonged to a specific category of male sexual subjectivity ...
Istanbul is the tenth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services.