This is Istanbul. Some 16 million people live in this crowded city on the Bosporus. For many, it is a center of creativity.

This website is published with the core support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to IPS Communication Foundation. The content of this website is the sole ...

The İstanbul Planning Agency (IPA), affiliated with the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has released the "University Students' Student Cost of Living Survey." According to the survey, the cost of ...

Istanbul resident Ali Haydar Demir knew something was wrong when he heard a noise at midnight in his apartment block on 911 Street in the far-flung Istanbul district of Esenyurt. "Yesterday night I ...

Travel expert Rick Steves has been to so many places overseas -- from incredibly quaint cities and small hidden towns to the regions that are most expensive to visit in Europe — so it might be hard ...

I’ve never been a breakfast person. As a child, my parents would have to bribe me to eat a piece of toast before school, in college I subscribed to the coffee on an empty stomach diet. As an adult, I ...

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Vol. 18, No. 3 (August 2023), pp. 88-118 (31 pages) The article explores the potential of urban living labs (ULLs) to achieve Sustainable ...

The Sultan Suite at the Çırağan Palace Kempinski offers marble baths, Bosphorus views, and Michelin-star dining fit for royalty.

The detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu brought hundreds of protesters onto the street despite a heavy police presence and a ban on protests Other demonstrations took place across the city, all ...