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Traffic in Istanbul and Transportation Companies
It is not only millions of people living and commuting back and forth all over the city every day but also the cars and means of transportation make it so crowded. Even if the traffic looks busy, Istanbul has a very good transportation network...
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DANA Calf, veal e.g. dana eti calf meat.
DARBUKA A goblet shaped hand drum used mostly in Arabic, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music. It is also called dümbelek in Turkish.
DEM Breath, smell; essence;...
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CACIK A kind of meze or side dish made with yoghurt and cucumber. Cacık is simply made with yoghurt and cucumber but also mint or dill, olive oil and garlic is added preferably. It is served as a side dish or meze as well as cold soup...
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BABA Father; person who is wise and kind e.g. baba adam, Nasılsın Baba? Tamam Baba.
BABALAR GÜNÜ Father’s Day. It is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.
BADEM Almond, almond tree. Badem is a good rakı meze. You can buy fresh badem...
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ABDEST Ritual ablution, the state of canonical purity. Muslims get washed before the namaz, pray. Therefore there are taps and fountains in the yard of mosques.
ABİ Big brother, short form of ağabey; used to address senior males, showing...
Hospitals on the European Side
AKSARAY
Aksaray Vatan Hastanesi Adnan Menderes Bulvarı No:19 Fatih Phone: 0 212 534 86 00 Fax: 0 212 534 13 76 Email: info@istanbulvatanhastanesi.com Web: www.istanbulvatanhastanesi.com
AVCILAR
Avcılar Hospital Üniversite Mh. Uran Cd....
Istanbul In Numbers
Demography
Population 12.915.158 (2010)
Density 2.444 person/km2 (26 times of Turkey, which is 94 person per square km)
Population growth rate 3.3 % yearly
35 % lives on the Asian side (Anatolia), 65 % on the European side (Thrace)
51 %...
Turkish Newspapers
Gazete, newspaper, are very functional for Istanbullu. As well as reading the news, you can see İstanbullu wrap a wine bottle or a can of beer to hide it from the public, workers in the construction areas make a hat out of the papers...
Istanbul Link Tours 2 – Seven Wonders of Istanbul
Today’s Istanbul link tour is focused on the 7+ wonders of Istanbul. Enjoy your tour!
Aya Sofya, Hagia Sophia is no doubt at the top of the list of the wonders of Istanbul. If you haven’t been there yet, you can first visit Wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia for...
Istanbul Link Tours 1
The aim of Istanbul-pedia.com is to share information with Istanbul visitors or locals. Therefore we start Istanbul link tours, a bunch of useful sites introducing life, history, food & drink, culture, travel etc. We hope you like it.
The...