Buy a home in Istanbul for real Turkish delight
Istanbul has glamour and views straight out of a Bond film, but there’s a home for every budget.
Istanbul
Picture perfect: even in the city, the scenery of Istanbul’s seven hills is simply breathtaking; even more so when you can see it for £30,000 Photo: Funkyfood London - Paul Williams
By Clive Aslet
7:00AM BST 02 Apr 2013
James Bond leaps over the pantiled roofs of the old city in Istanbul in the opening scenes of Skyfall, against the dazzling backdrop of the Bosporus and Golden Horn. He has been here before, most memorably in From Russia With Love, released in 1963. But he might well be astounded by the changes that have overtaken the ancient capital of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire in the past 50 years. In that time Istanbul has mushroomed from a city of one million inhabitants to a sprawling colossus of 13.5 million. Nobody could call the urbanism that greets the visitor a miracle of well-ordered planning, but not all comparisons are to the bad: trees have grown up over the hills that, when Sean Connery was Bond, looked bald. As for glamorous living space, an international, pleasure-seeking man of mystery would now feel completely at home.
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