Tokatlıyan Hotel

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The Tokatlıyan Hotel on Rue de Pera (İstiklâl Caddesi) in Pera

The Tokatlıyan Hotels ( French: Hôtel M. Tokatlian ), founded in 1897 by the Ottoman Armenian Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan, were two luxury hotels in Istanbul . Personalities such as Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Leon Trotsky were guests there. They were considered to be Ataturk's favorite hotels and are considered the first modern hotels to be built in Turkey .

The Tokatlıyan building in Pera 2013

history

The Tokatlıyan Hotels were founded by Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan, an Ottoman- Christian citizen of Armenian descent who moved from Tokat to Istanbul in 1883 and took the surname Tokatlıyan, which means "from Tokat". Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan later settled in Nice , France , where he spent the rest of his life.

Pera branch

Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan built the first Tokatlıyan hotel in 1897 on Rue de Pera (now İstiklâl Caddesi ) in today's Beyoğlu . The hotel was initially known as the Hôtel Splendide , but the name soon changed to Hôtel M. Tokatlian . It originally had 160 rooms, the furniture of which was imported from Western Europe. The hotel comprised halls and rooms with high ceilings and had its own real silver coat of arms that was placed all around the hotel. The hotel has long been the most popular meeting place for Constantinople high society . Many famous personalities such as Leon Trotsky, Josephine Baker and the state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk were guests of the hotel.

During the First World War and the Armenian Genocide , the hotel was damaged and its windows smashed. It was finally handed over to Yugoslav entrepreneur Nikolai Medowitsch in 1919 and then to Turkish businessman İbrahim Validan, who changed the hotel name to Konak . During the 1950s, the hotel was taken away due to poor maintenance and, in a dilapidated state, was taken over by the Armenian Üç Horan (Holy Trinity) Church.

Today the building stands next to Çiçek Pasajı . Its lower floors are used as a hotel, while other rooms are used as shops or banks. Many of the upper floors, which replace the dome of the building structure, can no longer be entered.

Taraby branch

After the success of the first Tokatlıyan hotel, Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan opened another hotel in Tarabya in 1909 . The hotel had 120 rooms and was on the banks of the Bosphorus . The hotel became very popular. On April 19, 1954, it was badly damaged by fire. In 1964 the hotel was rebuilt and its name changed to Büyük Tarabya Oteli . The hotel has been used as a backdrop for numerous Turkish films and TV series such as Cici Gelin , Acele Koca Aranıyor , Arım Balım Peteğim and others.

reception

The Tokatlıyan Hotel is identified in numerous literary works such as Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book and in Agatha Christie's works Parker Pyne, and murder on the Orient Express is mentioned and described.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean VanHeijenoort: With Trotsky in exile: from Prinkipo to Coyoacan: Jean van Heijenoort. Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass. 1978, ISBN 978-0-674-80255-1 .
  2. ^ A b c Judith Adamson: Max Reinhardt: a life in publishing . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-54542-7 .
  3. ↑ a b Vercihan Ziflioglu: Ataturk's favorite hotel still doomed. In: Hürriyet . November 9, 2011, accessed January 4, 2013 .
  4. ↑ TOKATLIYAN OTELİ ŞİMDİ OTELCİLİK MÜZESİ. Turizm Sesi, accessed on January 4, 2013 (Turkish): "Translated from Turkish: Along with the Pera Palace, Tokatliyan is one of the first hotels in Turkey"
  5. ^ Mario Levi: Istanbul era una favola . Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-8490-952-7 , p. 65 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Yeşilçam'ın kapısını herkese açtığı otel. In: Posta . January 8, 2012, accessed January 5, 2013 (Turkish).
  7. ↑ a b TOKATLIYAN OTELİ, YAPILMALIYDI COAT! Turizm Aktuel, archived from the original on March 27, 2014 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 (Turkish).
  8. ↑ a b c Vercihan Ziflioglu: Landmark Istanbul hotel threatened by stall on restoration. In: Hurriyet. December 27, 2010, accessed January 4, 2013 .
  9. ↑ I am a Turk, I am honest, I am cultured and I have a tour! Retrieved January 5, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Jacques Derogy: Resistance and revenge: the Armenian assassination of the Turkish leaders responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportation . Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 978-1-4128-3316-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  11. ^ Muammer Kaylan: The Kemalists: Islamic Revival and the Fate of Secular Turkey . Prometheus Books, ISBN 978-1-61592-897-2 , pp. 103 .
  12. ↑ a b Bogazicinin Tarabyasi. (No longer available online.) Tarabya Tarihi (Tarabya History), archived from the original on March 4, 2013 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 (Turkish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tarabyatarihi.com
  13. ↑ Selçuk Çıkla: Roman ve gerçeklik bağlamında: kältür değişmeleri ve Servet-i fünûn romanı . 1. baskı. Edition. Akçağ, Ankara 2004, ISBN 978-975-338-514-5 .
  14. ↑ Binnaz Tugba Sasanlar: A Histor ical Panorama of an Istanbul Neighborhood: Cihancir from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 2000s. (PDF) Bogaziçi University , p. 94 , accessed November 9, 2011 .
  15. ↑ Eski Tarabya Tokatlıyan Oteli (Tokatlian THERAPIA) -Konak Otel-Büyük Tarabya Oteli (Grand Tarabya Hotel). Degisti, accessed January 23, 2013 (Turkish).
  16. ↑ Orhan Pamuk: The black book . Vintage International, New York 2006, ISBN 978-1-4000-7865-3 , pp. 161 (He was just passing the building that had once housed the Tokatliyan Hotel when he bumped into Iskender.).
  17. ↑ Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express . HarperCollins, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-06-175382-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 23, 2013] Chapter two, "The Tokatlian Hotel." At the Tokatlian, Hercule Poirot asked for a room with bath.).
  18. ↑ Agatha Christie: Mr. Parker Pyne, detective . Dodd, Mead & Co., New York 1934, ISBN 978-0-06-200671-4 ('Mrs Jeffries,' he said, 'will you come to see me at the Hotel Tokatlian in half an hour?).