Midnight at the Pera Palace - King Charles
Midnight at the Pera Palace - King Charles At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to…
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Midnight at the Pera Palace - King Charles
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul--an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city--people were looking toward an uncertain future.
During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs--a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious
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