Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is a dizzying array of Byzantine treasures and soaring minarets, bisected by the Bosphorus strait. Though it’s long captivated visitors with its ancient charms, a ...

If there is one thing that the city of Istanbul is famous for, it would be its beauty. Almost everyone who has visited ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Up on the Golden Horn, the curving estuary that has always been a glory of Istanbul, a small Greek church gives ...

Some cities whisper their past. Istanbul shouts it from the rooftops, the domes, and the water. Nowhere is this more vivid than along the Bosphorus—the strait that quite literally divides continents ...

A transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul is an eclectic mix of both cultures. In a city where the West meets the East; as a traveller, ...

Do you prefer your sheep's head roasted and hot, or boiled and cold? No matter. One street in Beyoglu, Istanbul's old European district, offers both sorts of sheep's head ( kelle), considered an ...

History is being rewritten with archaeological excavations at Haydarpasa Train Station in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, which was known as Chalcedon (the Land of the Blind) in ancient times. The ...

As a fearless 007 is scaling the rooftops of Istanbul in Skyfall, I am up to my elbows in flour. It is something of a less risky mission – to create a Turkish meal under the guidance of Arzu Gurdamar, ...