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English: Authentic English text of the Istanbul Convention, formal full name "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence", as adopted on 11 May 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey by the Council of Europe.
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.
Reşad Ekrem Koçu (1905 – July 6, 1975) was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia (İstanbul Ansiklopedisi), which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times.
Cesare Biseo illustrated an 1882 edition, and Brambilla wrote that this one "will help shape the European imagination towards Istanbul, and the Orient in general." [2] Multiple translations were derived from the Biseo version. [2] In 2013 a new English translation by Stephen Parkin was released. [1]
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 is a 1995 non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, covering Constantinople (now Istanbul) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The author hoped to show positive aspects of the Ottoman Empire while acknowledging some negative aspects. [1]
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.
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The museum and the novel were created in tandem, centred on the stories of two Istanbul families. On 17 May 2014, the museum was announced as the winner of the 2014 European Museum of the Year Award. [1] The narrative and the museum offer a glimpse into upper-class Istanbul life from the 1970s to the early 2000s. [2]