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Istanbul is Turkey's most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. It is located on the Bosphorus Strait, and encompasses the natural harbor known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country.

Istanbul is the only city in the world that is located in two different continents at the same time. The Eastern portion of the city is located on Middle-East(Asia) while the Western portion is located on Europe.

With a new regulation in city planning on April 2008, Istanbul province is divided into 39 districts (was 32), each of them has a local municipality elected by the people living in the neighborhoods belonging to that district.
The ones marked with the asterix (*) are new districts formed in 2008:

1. Adalar (Islands)
2. Arnavutkoy(*)
3. Atasehir(*)
4. Avcilar
5. Bagcilar
6. Bahcelievler
7. Bakirkoy
8. Basaksehir
9. Bayrampasa
10. Besiktas
11. Beylikduzu(*)
12. Beykoz
13. Beyoglu
14. Buyukcekmece
15. Catalca
16. Cekmekoy(*)
17. Esenler
18. Esenyurt(*)
19. Eyüp
20. Fatih
21. Gaziosmanpasa
22. Gungoren
23. Kadiköy
24. Kagithane
25. Kartal
26. Kucukcekmece
27. Maltepe
28. Pendik
29. Sancaktepe(*)
30. Sariyer
31. Silivri
32. Sultanbeyli
33. Sultangazi(*)
34. Sile
35. Sisli
36. Tuzla
37. Umraniye
38. Üsküdar
39. Zeytinburnu
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Sep 29, 2007 - Apr 17, 2008
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<---------- PART 2 --------->VANİKÖY & HİSAR PHOTOSIf you already read part 1, do not read part 2 because text is same hihi, only see new photos ;)     Planning something and carrying it out is great. I created a walking map using google earth satelite view and defined lots of points on my route to stop and to take photos. So everything was ready and i was just waiting the next morning to make it real ;) I also explained my walking plans to my friends the...
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Mar 01, 2008 - Mar 19, 2008
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USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND INFORMATION   Placing a Call          Local Calls (number)        National Calls (0+ area code+number) LongDistance Calls (00+countrycode+area code+number) Emergency Calls...
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cult of hospitality
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Fio
Dec 31, 2006 - Jan 15, 2007
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My last day in Istanbul: it’s unbelievable that I’ve been here for 2 1/2 months.  The time has flown by and I'll be sad to leave, but I also think it's time to go:  much longer and I think I'd start to really feel guilty about not doing anything terribly productive, and also about not putting forth more effort to learn Turkish.  I had grand plans of using my time here to learn the language, but apart from pleasantries and some other bare-bones basics, that definitely...
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Love at First Sight
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Apr 02, 2008 - Apr 12, 2008
This blog I would like to contribute to Birol. I owed him a lot this trip. He was really nice taking his 2 days off work showing me around Istanbul for 4 days. We went to some tourist attractions as mentioned in Fatih's blogs and also some local hang out places and met some of his friends. It was good having him around since I felt secured having someone especially local to walk with. I felt very much better about Istanbul.One thing I like about Turkey is that the people are so inviting and t...
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