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article REVIEW: Istanbul, the place where East and West meet, because of its complex, rich layers of history and well-loved,Future of the historic city of Istanbul Global Tourism fashion style, it may also let us foreseeable future.

a few months ago before the trip to Istanbul, I feel I can not walk into a movie theater restroom, scheduled to open the wall to see the small screen in the playing fashion catwalk film. But then, my life is occluded, I have never seen such a small screen lined escalator leading to the auditorium. When I visited Istanbul Nisa Tacitus (Nisantasi) Urban mall when each floor have posted the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" (Slumdog Millionaire) popular theme song; while the cinema hall is next to the toilet in front of the real size of the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (Mr. and Mrs.Smith) starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

sofa overlooking the city lights, in the tanning salon tanning children in the cocktail bar in blue light lying in disorder. I'm not talking about selling in another corner tiramisu coffee bar or those selling cookies and Haagen-Dazs ice cream ordinary snack bar. It took me a long time to realize that these trendy teenager did not come here to see "Public Enemies" (Public Enemies) or "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past). They are meant to come to the cinema hall and came here.

I Istanbul, this 2010 European Capital of Culture, one claiming to be "Europe's coolest city," already heard. It is indeed one of the cities most difficult to understand. In the center of the country 98% of people believe in Islam, but more because there's "Watermelon Martini" fame. Here's the Blue Mosque has an LCD screen flashing the time in Paris and Tokyo. Turkey has the most prosperous metropolis in addition to New York, Moscow and London, the largest number of billionaires outside world. And when I go to Istanbul Park Mall (Istinye Park Mall), when I was look at the Aston Martin DB9 and Bentley packed with Armani, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior and other big arranged magnificent boulevard. For me those in New York fashion circles of friends, for many people who pride Istanbul,gucci官網, the city in the Islamic world and meet global order where it is a bridge, the true meaning and symbolism of the bridge, will linking the border between Europe and Asia.

But I still was not ready to meet this ubiquitous dazzling brilliance. I live in the city theater (CitylifeCinema) read Matthew McConaughey (MatthewMcConaughey) softly touching love words,gucci官網, the hotel across the street came to the cable method (Sofa Hotel). One into the elevator, I found myself came to a light show as hallucinations general, the elevator every stop layer, a new color will be shone through the transparent walls. When I was walking back towards the city center, I saw a woman from head to toe robe wrapped into a Muslim buy a cup of Starbucks coffee flavor called Turkey joy jelly.

This day earlier in the Grand Bazaar (Grand Bazaar), I've even seen the words "University of Baltimore" on the strange carpet.

We like to say that these foreigners Istanbul is the world's only one side in Asia, while in the European cities. However, if the writing is excellent Istanbul · son Orhan Pamuk (Orhan Pamuk) in its thought-provoking memoir, "Istanbul: a memory of the city" (Istanbul: Memories andthe City) said in Istanbul the real core actually exists in the Old World (usually a local Islamic world) and New World (usually Western secular world) differences among. Relationship between the two remains tense: I need to see a movie through security doors down. And Pamuk himself, although the most famous modern Turks, but also because mere mention of his country in 1915 against Armenians manhandled while jailed in jail. After the second year, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and perhaps be regarded as a "response" it.

but Istanbul today's charm is that it looks like you have to understand that the concentration of the external world, and a viable model. One morning, I woke up at dawn to dawn, when I could hear every one minaret issued by the Islamic prayer call sounds, and even I can vaguely hear the latest hip-hop music in the streets in shock. When night falls, I go to bed, or a combination of the pair seems unlikely that the two opposing voices came together, fierce collision.