“A Prostitute Lodging in the Bosom of Turkishness”: Istanbul's Pera and its Representation

Yumul, Arus

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“…The appearance of Western-style arcades, shops, department stores, hotels, clubs, and theaters led to the development of a modem and Westernized urban image in Pera as well as changes in dress, manners, and values. For instance, along the famous street Grande Rue de Pera cafes, patisseries, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and other places were opened and people from different backgrounds met, mixed, and influenced one another (Yumul 2009).…”

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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

Şenışık

2018

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This article tells the story of the construction of Turkish national identity in the early republican era by addressing two canonical novels about occupied İstanbul:Sodom ve Gomore(“Sodom and Gomorrah”) by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu andBiz İnsanlar(“We People”) by Peyami Safa. Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkish nationalist intellectuals attempted to offer certain formulations and implemented various mechanisms to create a national self. The study aims to focus on the ways in which Karaosmanoğlu and Safa create the new Turkish national identity and deals with the questions of how occupied İstanbul was perceived by these intellectuals and how the memory of the Allied occupation of İstanbul, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the National Liberation Struggle shaped Turkish elites' self-identification as well as their formulation of the national identity.

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Section: Istanbul's "In-betweenness"mentioning

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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

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2018

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“…The district’s embourgeoisement included lavish European-style hotels, modern multistory apartment buildings, and even a subway system. With the changing physical landscape, new forms of urban sociability—walking in the Grand Rue de Pera, sitting at cafes, shopping at bon marchés or just window shopping—flourished (Yumul, 2009).…”

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“…In the 18th century, increasing trade between the European states and the Ottoman Empire, accompanied with a will to modernize Istanbul, triggered a major socioeconomic transformation of the area. By the end of the 19th century, Pera, with its Levantine architecture, European-style shopping and entertainment venues, and mostly non-Muslim population, had turned into Istanbul’s “Frankish town” (Yumul, 2009, p. 58). Located at the heart of the capital of the Muslim world, Pera came to stand for “a place of marginality, of ‘otherness,’ and ‘foreignness’” (Yumul, 2009, p. 63).…”

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“…By the end of the 19th century, Pera, with its Levantine architecture, European-style shopping and entertainment venues, and mostly non-Muslim population, had turned into Istanbul’s “Frankish town” (Yumul, 2009, p. 58). Located at the heart of the capital of the Muslim world, Pera came to stand for “a place of marginality, of ‘otherness,’ and ‘foreignness’” (Yumul, 2009, p. 63). Today, the empire and its eclectic subjects long gone, Beyoğlu continues to exist as a border space, a microcosm of the tensions and negotiations between past and present, East and West:The hundreds of secondary veins connected to this main artery host a bohemian, cosmopolitan, emancipated, and controversial atmosphere with hundreds of café-bars, restaurants, theaters, cinemas, drinking shops, patisseries, bars, hotels, art galleries, and shops as well as the culture centers and schools of different countries, a variety of religious temples, and consulates of many countries.…”

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Strolling Through Istanbul’s Beyoğlu

Sandıkçı

2013

Space and Culture

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In this essay, I evaluate Istanbul's Beyoglu as a hybrid and negotiated space and investigate how the imaginary and lived experiences of space enable as well as constrain transgressive everyday practices and identity politics. Through analyzing memories, imaginations, and experiences of Beyoglu, in particular its drag/transsexual subculture, I explore the ways in which the past and present interact under the dynamic of globalization and (re)produce Beyoglu as a space of difference and containment. Beyond the intricacies of Istanbul's sex trade, night life, and queer subculture, I propose that the singular district of Beyoglu, given its geographical, historical, and social location, operates as a microcosm of the tensions and negotiations between East and West, local and global, past and present.

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“…The Bosphorus shores and the Anatolian side were used for leisure and recreational activities. Alongside the enlarged and paved roads, new urban places and amenities like cafés, opera houses, shops, theatres, restaurants, beer halls, hotels and bookstores were established [42]. Educational buildings became more varied since the transformation of the education system.…”

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Transformation of the urban patterns of istanbul under the effects of the modernization during the ottoman period

Aksoylu¹

2017

Int. J. HA

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Turkey was westernized after the declaration of The Tanzimat Charter in 1839. The modernization of Ottoman Empire inevitably brought changes into the administrative, socio-economic and spatial organization of the cities as well as in the lifestyles of urban dwellers. Urbanization and economic, cultural and social modernization processes created new buildings and establishments. The spread of particular techniques and concepts of urban intervention that were developed in some Western countries and saw their influences in other Western and non-Western countries has also resulted in changes in the urban pattern. The spread of ideas and some planning approach in Turkey was due to Western engineers and architects for applying the new planning models throughout after the great fires of I . stanbul in the 19th century. The implementation of Western urban planning principles and modern technology and the image of Western cities have affected the formation of new urban development and reconstruction activities in Turkish cities especially in I . stanbul. The aim of this article is to analyse the effects of planning practices initiated by the urban reforms of Tanzimat on the urban pattern of I . stanbul. These analyses are based on a hypothesis, as the Turkish planning practices in the Tanzimat period were influenced by Western planning practices.

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“A Prostitute Lodging in the Bosom of Turkishness”: Istanbul's Pera and its Representation

Cited by 7 publications

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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

Strolling Through Istanbul’s Beyoğlu

Transformation of the urban patterns of istanbul under the effects of the modernization during the ottoman period

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