{"id":45460,"date":"2011-10-16T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=45460"},"modified":"2023-07-25T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T11:59:08","slug":"istiklal-caddesi-istanbuls-leading-pedestrian-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/16\/istiklal-caddesi-istanbuls-leading-pedestrian-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130stiklal Caddesi \u2014 Istanbul\u2019s Leading Pedestrian Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u0130stiklal Caddesi \u2014 Istanbul\u2019s Leading Pedestrian Scene<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45463\" title=\"Rick Steves in Ireland.Courtesy photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rick2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rick2.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rick2-300x171.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Istanbul\u2019s main street, \u0130stiklal Caddesi, throbs with crowds all day and into the wee hours. I visit it almost every year, and it changes with each visit. As Turkey becomes more affluent and Western, the action here becomes more and more vibrant. This clip is actually a quieter part of the mile-long stroll. And it\u2019s early in the evening. On weekdays the action peaks around 10 p.m., and on weekends it keeps building until about 2 a.m. The side streets are just as vibrant.<\/p>\n<p>via Rick Steves: Blog Gone Europe \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb \u0130stiklal Caddesi \u2014 Istanbul\u2019s Leading Pedestrian Scene.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"468\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-tXJ7-HyNE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0130stiklal Caddesi \u2014 Istanbul\u2019s Leading Pedestrian Scene Istanbul\u2019s main street, \u0130stiklal Caddesi, throbs with crowds all day and into the wee hours. I visit it almost every year, and it changes with each visit. As Turkey becomes more affluent and Western, the action here becomes more and more vibrant. This clip is actually a quieter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":45463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094],"tags":[6882,6188,7265],"class_list":["post-45460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-beyoglu","tag-istiklal","tag-rick-steves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}