Hoping to spend a day relaxing by the pool while visiting Istanbul? These hotels offer day passes for travelers looking to enjoy a mini vacation during their vacation.

Whether you’re wedged shoulder to shoulder with the locals on a plastic stool in Beşiktaş or sipping your second pot of tea beneath the brooding gaze of Ara Güler’s lens, breakfast in Istanbul remains ...

Baklava — and not just one kind, but every kind.

Marcel Heijnen chronicles the famous roving cats of Turkey's largest city in 'City Cats of Istanbul,' published by Thames & ...

In the next 30 years, geophysicists predict Istanbul has a 40 to 60 percent chance of a major earthquake, which could imperil its ancient architecture. There are roughly 40,000 historical sites in ...