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The slums are eventually knock-ed down to make way for new tower-blocks — a new suburb is created, yet another shanty-town springs up beyond it, and Istanbul spreads out a little farther.
The main attractions for the visitor are concentrated in the historic heart of old Istanbul.
In 1453, they took Constantinople, and immediately made it their capital, renaming it Istanbul.
With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton already in Istanbul, and Bill Clinton due there from Ankara later this week for a summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Guardian of London fronted Monday the claim that the disastrous earthquakes in northwestern Turkey were "a prelude to a cataclysmic strike in Istanbul."
Istanbul was forced to recognize this powerful thorn in its side as a semi-autonomous part of the empire, and granted hereditary status to the role of Pasha of Egypt.