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A view from İstiklal Avenue. The avenue briefly fell from grace in the 1970s and early 1980s, when the old Istanbulite inhabitants started moving elsewhere, and the side streets (then infamous for bars and night clubs with live music and shows, called pavyon in Turkish) were repopulated by low-income migrants from rural Anatolia.
Pera became a flourishing trade colony, ruled by a podestà. The Genoese Palace (Palazzo del Comune) was built in 1316 [10] by Montano de Marinis, the Podestà of Galata (Pera), and still remains today in ruins, near the Bankalar Caddesi (Banks Street) in Karaköy, along with its adjacent buildings and numerous Genoese houses from the early ...
International relations Taiwan–United States relations, China–United States relations, Cross-Strait relations The Trump administration informs Congress of a potential $2 billion arms deal with Taiwan that includes the M1A2, the U.S.'s latest main battle tank, and a resupply of anti-air and anti-armor weapons. China's foreign ministry says it is "severely concerned with" and "firmly against ...
Disasters and accidents Twenty-nine people are injured in a fire at a center used as temporary accommodation for about 500 migrants in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa. (Reuters) An explosion at a Russian Military high-explosive production and storage facility in the city of Dzerzhinsk injures 79 people. (BBC News) Six earthquakes, the first 5.3 M w, in a two-hour period near ...
June 5 is the 156th day of the year ... on The Milton Berle Show, ... (d. 2019) 1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist, 13th White House Press Secretary;
İstiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue), a long pedestrian shopping street, ends at this square, and a nostalgic tram runs from the square along the avenue, ending near the Tünel (1875) which is the world's second-oldest subway line after London's Underground (1863). In addition to serving as the main transfer point for the municipal bus ...
Comedian Joe Pera performed an unusual stand-up routine on 'Late Night with Seth Myers' and it's absolutely hysterical. Comedian performs gentle, weird stand-up on late night; kills Skip to main ...
A terrorist attack occurred on İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 November 2022 (), [7] [8] killing 6 people and injuring 81 others. [9]No group has claimed responsibility, but Turkish authorities announced that Kurdish separatists were behind the attack, [10] implicating the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).