Featuring Claus Siebeneicher. More about the t-up AI project at bit.ly/3q1TyeR
Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I went to Istanbul in 2009 for my first long-term international trip of my life. I had hoped to return four times in a couple of years, but ended up doing one more. The journey took me through a few countries and in some places I wanted to cover only briefly but this time it was to cover what a visitor to Istanbul, the largest Turkish city outside of Turkey, doesn’t see much: the world’s largest mosque. Istanbul has a history of being home to a sizeable population of Shia Muslims who migrated from Iran, which was then ruled by the Ottomans and is still part of Turkey today. And it’s not too far from the top end of the Mediterranean, so its history is rich and ancient.
Thumbs-up and a friendly smile from a stranger. The beginning of another travel-story: I went to Istanbul in 2009 for my first long-term international trip of my life. I had hoped to return four times in a couple of years, but ended up doing one more. The journey took me through a few countries and in some places I wanted to cover only briefly but this time it was to cover what a visitor to Istanbul, the largest Turkish city outside of Turkey, doesn’t see much: the world’s largest mosque. Istanbul has a history of being home to a sizeable population of Shia Muslims who migrated from Iran, which was then ruled by the Ottomans and is still part of Turkey today. And it’s not too far from the top end of the Mediterranean, so its history is rich and ancient.
And so I found another mosque, the Hagia Sophia, which stands to a different kind of end. This was in an area of Istanbul called Topkapi which, even in 2019, is a little town outside the city’s historical walls. This side of Istanbul was relatively unspoiled in spite of its history and I was able to see what is usually an…
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