Istanbul in the snow is a wonder. The extravagant pleasures on show in the Topkapi Palace Museum - the sultan's robes thickly… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
“It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes.… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Sampai di Kadıköy, matahari dah hampir terbenam. Langit oren-oren sephia. Dengan latar belakang muzik Turki yang dimainkan oleh seniman jalanan di tepi… — Azzah A.R Copy Share Image
So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I was… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
