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The only place that "I feel home". Everybody wants to leave the known faces and known faces behind one day, and I can leave any face any place behind but Istanbul... it's my addiction.

And it's strange that people around the world is more likely to know the name of the city -Istanbul- more than the country Turkey.
It is like knowing Chicago and thinking that it's a state rather than a city of the state Illinois.

Yes, it used to be the capital of Turkey but back in the history it was shifted to Ankara which was a safer place geographically and strategically.
Istanbul, the place to be!
by Godmotha August 24, 2006
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Fill-in-the-blank-istan

One of a dozen ex-Soviet satellite countries of western and southwestern Asia.
Out of all the Fill-in-the-blank-istans, Afghanistan is the most beautiful, especially the snow-capped Hindu Kush mountains.
by William Dean A. Garner February 18, 2011
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Istanbul

The hottest placeon Earth! Even though there's a lot of poverty (especially child-poverty) and homeless people, it's a place that means the world to people, who have lived there. Honestly, it's a place that' ll touch you, if you visit it one day. There's a great atmosphere and it's probably the only city on Earth, where old asian culture and modern western culture has a nice balance. A lot of great mosques and historical places to visit.
Oh, and by the way: IT*S ISTANBUL! NOT CONSTANTINOPEL!! OK?! SHOUT IT: ISTANBUL!!!!
A: Istanbul use to be the capital city of Turkey, but now it's another city called Ankara.

B: In Istanbul there's a place called The Grand Bazaar, where you can buy nice fake watches for dirt cheap prizes.
by Amine April 28, 2006
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istanbul

istanbul,, timeless city!!
1stanbul,not Istanbul ;)
by aybars July 7, 2007
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istanbul

Asitane is another old name of the city, in ottoman language...
Cultural heritage and natural beauty meets in Istanbul as asia and europe meets in it
by berryinaspin August 12, 2005
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istanbul

Noun.
Was Constantinople,
Now it's Istanbul not,
Constantinople.
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople she'll be waiting in Istanbul
guy 1: wasn't Istanbul Constantinople?
Guy 2: yes, but now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Guy 3:Been a long time gone, Constantinople...
Guy 1: Why did Constantinople get the works?
Guy 2: That's nobody's business but the Turks!
by Colte the Pirate January 12, 2007
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iStander Effect

When a group of people fail to help a victim because they're too busy filming the crime on their phones.
Poor Kitty Genovese Jr was killed because none of the twenty people filming her murder used their phones to call 911. Textbook iStander Effect.
by Aplusbar September 17, 2019
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