İstiklal Caddesi
The İstiklâl Caddesi ("Independence Street "), formerly Cadde-i Kebir or Grande rue de Péra , is one of the most famous streets in the Turkish city of Istanbul . The street was named İstiklâl Caddesi after the proclamation of the republic in 1923.
It is located in the Beyoğlu district and leads from Tünel Square via Galatasaray Square to Taksim Square ; their total length is about 1.4 kilometers. The street, which has only been a pedestrian zone since the early 1990s , is a shopping street during the day and one of the centers of Istanbul's nightlife at night . A revitalized historic tram runs the entire length of İstiklâl Caddesi . On Galatasaray Square is a former imperial school, the Galatasaray High School ( Galatasaray Lisesi ). The Basilica of St. Anthony is on the road . Not far from Taksim Square, the Akbank Sanat cultural center is adjacent to the street.
A number of European embassies , today's consulates, were located at it during the Ottoman Empire . In 1897 Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan built the first Tokatlıyan hotel here , the favorite hotel of the Turkish state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . It was also the center of the cosmopolitan, western-oriented Istanbul with numerous shops, especially the Greek minority, and therefore one of the main scenes of the Istanbul pogrom in 1955. Even today there are still Art Nouveau signs in the shopping malls and on the shop fronts.
A bomb attack was committed on the street in 2016, killing 5 people and injuring 36.
Web links
- Image of İstiklal Caddesi in winter ( Memento from April 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Images of İstiklal Caddesi
Individual evidence
- ↑ Orhan Pamuk : Istanbul . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 376
Coordinates: 41 ° 2 ′ 3 ″ N , 28 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ E