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Istanbul feels like several cities rolled into one. Turkey’s largest metropolis, home to 15 million people, famously straddles the Bosphorus Strait with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia, but ...

After three days of unseasonable chill in Copenhagen, I was giddy about my next stop: Istanbul, crowned this year as Europe's best city by Travel + Leisure readers. It had been an entire decade since ...

Turkey’s most populous city also aspires to be its greenest. Here’s what hotels and resorts in Istanbul are doing to reduce their carbon footprint and preserve the environment. Sustainability is ...

A corn and roasted chestnut street vendor in Istanbul, Turkey, has become a global sensation on social media, emerging as a ...

Istanbul has become one of the busiest medical travel cities in the world. People fly in for hair restoration, cosmetic surgery, dental care, fertility treatment, orthopedics, oncology support, eye ...