Istanbul, Nisantasi Nightlife Walking Tour 4K

This walking tour was filmed in Nisantasi, Istanbul

Nişantaşı is an upmarket, largely secular residential neighbourhood in the Şişli district on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. Separated from Osmanbey and Pangaltı to the west by busy Halaskargazi Caddesi, it is a popular shopping district, full of boutiques, department stores, cafés, pubs, restaurants and night clubs. In the middle of the 19th century, Nişantaşı was settled by Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I who erected a pair of obelisks to define the extents of the new district. It was Abdülmecid I who ordered the construction of the Neo-Classical Teşvikiye Police Station and the Neo-Baroque Teşvikiye Mosque to create a proper district, encouraging Constantinopians to settle in the area (hence the name Teşvikiye which means Encouragement in Ottoman Turkish).

The word Nişantaşı means "Target Stone" in Turkish. Target stones were erected in the Ottoman period to mark the records of Ottoman archers including sultans. Shaped like small obelisks with Ottoman Turkish inscriptions on them, some of these target stones still serve as monuments to Nişantaşı's past, their inscriptions recording when a particular arrow was fired and by whom as well as recording the distance it flew. Following the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, many Turks from Macedonia, especially Thessaloniki (Selânik, which was an Ottoman metropolis until 1912) settled in the Nişantaşı quarter of Istanbul, including the family of the famous Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet. Apart from the Turks, the quarter also had sizeable Greek, Jewish, Armenian and Levantine communities.

In 1923 many Dönme moved to the area from Thessaloniki after the Greek-Turkish population exchange. Arriving in Nişantaşi, they occupied abandoned Greek houses. A few of their descendants still live in Nişantaşi where they are a tight knit community.

????Video Timeline Links:
00:00 Intro
01:53 Teşvikiye Street
10:25 Valikonağı Street
12:15 Abdi İpekçi Street
20:00 Atiye Street
23:05 Ahmet Fetgari Street
24:30 Teşvikiye Fırın Street


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