Istanbul is a city like no other, sitting on two continents: Europe and Asia. The Bosphorus Strait splits it, linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Its skyline is filled with minarets and ...

Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is a dizzying array of Byzantine treasures and soaring minarets, bisected by the Bosphorus strait. Though it’s long captivated visitors with its ancient charms, a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Up on the Golden Horn, the curving estuary that has always been a glory of Istanbul, a small Greek church gives ...

Some cities whisper their past. Istanbul shouts it from the rooftops, the domes, and the water. Nowhere is this more vivid than along the Bosphorus—the strait that quite literally divides continents ...

Do you prefer your sheep's head roasted and hot, or boiled and cold? No matter. One street in Beyoglu, Istanbul's old European district, offers both sorts of sheep's head ( kelle), considered an ...

History is being rewritten with archaeological excavations at Haydarpasa Train Station in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, which was known as Chalcedon (the Land of the Blind) in ancient times. The ...

A transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul is an eclectic mix of both cultures. In a city where the West meets the East; as a traveller, ...