Istanbul’s old European quarter has been hit hard by Turkey’s recent travails, with its main pedestrian thoroughfare, Istiklal Caddesi, transformed (many say for the worst) by protests, gentrification ...

After more than two decades in the neighborhood, the Upper East Side’s crowd favorite Turkish restaurant Beyoglu — at the corner of East 81st Street and Third Avenue — has permanently closed, ...

Taksim Square in Beyoglu is popular with locals and tourists, but the charm some visitors may be looking for is being replaced with new construction.

Beyoglu is like a collection album of many voices; old and new, dim and loud; voices of people coming from various cultural, social and political stands. Voices of past and present; in harmony or ...

Leisa Tyler is charmed by an Istanbul borough filled with Ottoman mansions, edgy art and an air of transformation. Istanbul is in the midst of a cultural and architectural revival. This rich and ...

Explore cosmopolitan Istanbul, stay in a new London budget bolthole, and burrow into an Icelandic glacier Why go? It’s no surprise that Soho House has chosen Beyoglu as the location for its newest and ...

In our October cover story, Pico Iyer writes of the wonders of Istanbul, the “City of the Future.” Writer Emilie Harting just returned from a visit herself, and delves deeper into the neighborhood of ...