RHYTHM OF ISTANBUL İSTANBUL’UN RİTMİ
DISTRICTS OF ISTANBUL
KARAKÖY:
A REAL
ISTANBULITE
Well -known proffessional tour guide Saffet Emre
Tonguç, is also a travel books writer and writes for the
most read newspapers and magazines in Turkey and
abroad.He has also been awarded as the most frequent
travelling tourist guide of Turkey.
A
comprehensive guide book on
Istanbul by British editor Pat Yale
and professional Turkish tour guide
Saffet Emre Tonguç looks to provide
a different take on the city from
other resource books by focusing on
locations less well-known by visitors.
‘Istanbul: The Ultimate Guide,’ which
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has won international awards, is
available in English and Turkish
Istanbul: the Ultimate Guide,” which
received the Best Tourism Book of
the Year 2010 award from Skal
International Istanbul.
Tonguç and British travel writer Pat
Yale, who is best known for her
contributions to the Turkey editions
of the “Lonely Planet” franchise,
are the authors of “Istanbul: the
Ultimate Guide” (“Istanbul Hakkında
Herşey” in its Turkish edition), a
comprehensive tome that aims to
reveal all of Istanbul’s historical and
cultural richness.
The guide lists over 2,000 places in
the city, including restaurants, cafes,
bars, shops, hotels, hostels, night
clubs and Turkish baths, with 3,000
photos, illustrations, maps, gravures
and miniatures.
Yale said tour guides brought tourists
to certain places but not to Istanbul’s
central places like Bağdat Avenue,
adding that she and Tonguç had
thus used photos of places relatively
unknown to tourists in the book.
Recently Tonguç mentioned about
Karaköy as the real İstanbulite at a TV
programme.
In this issue we prepared a Karaköy
file for you to help you explore this
famous district.