Memories of Istanbul

These memoirs of the master storyteller Hagop Mintzuri, covering the years 1897-1940, bear witness to the long-gone period of Istanbul, extending from the last years of the empire to the beginning of the republic. Mintzuri, who was a child and came to Istanbul with her family from her village Armidan to do baking, talked about daily life in the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish, Armenian, Macedonian, Greek and Albanian tradesmen around the bakeries in Besiktas and Hisar, the sultans she saw at Friday Selamligi, the sultans she saw to give bread. He tells about the mansions with harems and greetings he visited, Galata, Pera, the Bosphorus and the districts along that line. The adventures of Mintzuri, who studied at schools such as École Français, Getronagan and Robert College, while going to and from school or with his classmates present a naive story about being a child in Istanbul in the early 20th century.

Mintzuri, who voluntarily ends his Istanbul adventure and returns to his village Armudan, where he works as a teacher in the winters and farms in the summers, finds himself in Istanbul again as a result of a series of coincidences and the outbreak of the First World War, and this leads to the second part of the book, which tells about Istanbul after the Republic. It creates.

This edition is a revised version of the book, which was first published by History Foundation Yurt Publications in 1993.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 256