Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace ... 1938. The Çırağan Palace played home to Sultan Murad V—where he lived with his family for 28 years until his death in 1904.

Make sure to also visit the National Painting Museum next door (included in the ticket), which showcases around 200 paintings from the palace's collection that spans Turkish and international ...

Turkish Ambassador Salih Mutlu Şen was granted a commemorative plaque by the Mainal Palace Museum director ... was specifically built in Istanbul for Sultan Abdel-Meguid’s visit to the Egyptian ...

The elaborate three-story building was used as a guest house for the Ottoman Sultan's palace visitors. During the early days of the Republic of Turkey, the building was used as a school.

This is the oldest hotel in all of Turkey ... the Sultan's palaces. Nowadays, the Oriental Express Train still runs annually from Paris, and most guests still stay at Pera Palace when they ...