Dr. Architect Kadir Topbaş Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality İstanbul, since the conquest (feth), while embracing people coming from all around Anatolia, has been also awarding a new identity. Getting richer and greater while transmitted between generations, this new identity was called "Istanbulian". Ones coming from intellectually and behaviorally different geographies, has been gaining particular color, confusion, traditions, architecture, Turkish of Istanbul the purest form of the Turkish language, lifestyle of Bosphorus and countless features of Istanbul, whose influence has been distinguished, from tradition to architecture, up to the farthest comer of the Empire, briefly have been becoming Istanbulian. Istanbul, today although is a crowded, great metropolis, the traces of the times when it was a 'wonderland' and when all its inhabitants were Istanbulians, still remain as irremovable glaze. Now, this glaze is getting more obvious thanks to the services adorning and brightening the city…

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