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The Destruction of the Pashas' Mansion: A Sad Tour of the Streets(2)

Through the back windows of our building on Tesvikiye Avenue, beyond the cypress and linden trees, you could see the remains of the mansion of Tunisian Hayrettin Pasha, a Circassian from the Caucasus who werved as grand viier for a short while during the Russian-Ottoman War. As a young boy (in the 1830s, a decade before Flaubert wrote that he wanted to "move to Istanbul and buy a slave"), he'd ..

The Destruction of the Pashas' Mansion: A Sad Tour of the Streets(1)

The Pamuk Apartments were built at the edge of a large lot in Nisantasi that had been the garden of a pasha's mansion. The name itself, meaning "target stone," comes from the days of the reformist westernizing sultans of the late eighteen and early nineteenth century (Selim III and Mahmud II), who placed stone tablets in the empty hills above the city in those areas where they practiced shootin..