Best Western President Istanbul

... a lot of time walking up hill, so I knew I was heading in the right direction. Finally, finally I stumbled upon a Best Western-The Best Western President Hotel to be precise. From the street I could see that the hotel had a rooftop patio. I was ...

... the cob. They were a nice treat after a long afternoon of walking around. Topkapi Palace: another extremely famous landmark of Istanbul. The palace is huge, with four courtyards, and plenty of exhibits scattered around to provide an insight into the life ...

... like sardines fighting for empty space to stand. I haven’t had such experience since my earlier days in Taipei. The buildings in Istanbul are closely justified just like Asia, but the façade of various buildings has a European feel to it. We had ...

... entire day on the bus for a 4.5 hour trip..first a WC stop then lunch then another WC stop...ugh! So we arrived in Istanbul to late to see any sights. We did however, have perfect weather for Bosphorus cruise. Later tonight the farewell dinner. Early ...

... with veggies. The spice bazaar was interesting, but you have to wander outside the "official area" into the side streets for the best people watching. So many great smells! The lemon tea was my favorite smell, no idea how it tastes. The nut and candy ...

... the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and the subsequent formation of the modern Republic of Turkey by Atatürk, its first President and hailed glorious founder of the nation, Turkey has found itself at the forefront of the fight between a secular ...

... sits across a park from the Blue Mosque, a Church turned Mosque that was finally turned into a Museum by the first elected president, Ataturk, to settle the debate. This place got to charge admission and is under a constant state of renovation, peeling ...

... in Turkey shifted from an authoritarian model to a democratic one. Turgut Ozul was Prime Minister before he became President of Turkey. He initiated the privatization of businesses and introduced the Turkish Lira currency to international markets in ...

I have FINALLY arrived in Istanbul. I say finally, primarily due to the fact that I left Tuesday at 5pm and it is now Wednesday 11:55pm. In addition, I was nearly arrested at Heathrow airport and sent back to America. While waiting to board my plane, I ...

... -balance to Turkey's powerful military state and the government, which have traditionally been inseperably intertwined. The president is the head of the armed forces in Turkey and also presides over meetings where officers suspected of leading a ...

... the end I managed to visit three, excluding Turkey – Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt; thanks to the enlightened response of President Assad to protests in his country, Syria was off the cards), were still a significant proportion of the ...

... ; On the bright side, it was a failed attempt and, as we learned while we were there, may have been a PR ploy by the president who came to power over a year ago by...you guessed it...a coup.  Arriving in the capital, Antananarivo (Tana), there was no ...

... ‘Turkish’ peasants living on the far side of the Bosphrous). The majesty of this empire can best be encapsulated in one word: Istanbul. The informal name for the city during Ottoman times was the ‘Sublime Porte’ – a ...

... targeted assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists.             Syrian president Hafez-al-Assad died unexpectedly in 2000, and was replaced by his son Bashir. It was expected that he ...

... many of which have been squashed. I discussed some of those tensions with Calvin, whose family incidentally is all from Istanbul, arguably the most Western European of Turkey's Western European areas. "I mean what he did to bring us to where we are today ...

... sounds like a goddess. He is totally in love. Sasha described how his family has this really nice, big house in Istanbul and he hopes to be the president of Turkey one day. He is very smart and seems quite driven, except that he has never really worked ...

... and parks filled with grass&banks&sculptures... Change is exactly the thing one can see nowadays - the current president Saakashiwili is said having fired the *whole* bureaucracy system to destroy the former corruption, hired new people and ...

... governments.  He pledged to work to change the prejudiced culture of America and he showed more respect than perhaps any president before to a religion that Americans in so many ways unfairly mistrust.  He admitted that Iran does ...

... view of the city below. Just behind the monument was the grave of Ibrahim Rugova. Rugova was the chain smoking, cravat wearing former President of Kosovo. Diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 61, he spent his final days furiously puffing way on one ...

... is it that heads of state always mess up our holidays?!  On our trip to Turkey  President Obama decided to visit a Muslim country and arrived in Istanbul just hours behind us.  Then he toured the sights all by ...