05.02.2021
Istanbul is whole with your presence*
How beautiful Istanbul is, since, now, here there is your presence 1Now, that nothing is missing, Istanbul is beatiful with your essence 2
My dearest, if you have looked at the Bosphorus, 3
If your eyes have met to Golden Horn 4 in the flesh
How well it is completed the blue of both of you
Your hands heal upon touching,
to the mossy walls of Pera 5
The restoration of Galata Tower 6 is completed
Do not forget none of the seven hills
Your presence may bless each one of them
Those districts lost their meaning gains meaning with you
Now that you are in Istanbul
Sister of The Maiden's Tower 7
Now every where else foreign land
Do not turn back ever, stay there because, Istanbul is beatiful with your presence
Now, all I have is to come closer to you slowly
- 1. Lit: 'Since you are there'
- 2. Lit: 'with you'
- 3. It unites the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara and separating parts of Asian Turkey (Anatolia Peninsula) from European Turkey
- 4. Is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
- 5. These walls were constructed by Emperor Justinian in 528
- 6. In Turkish called: 'Galata Kulesi' The first Galata Tower was built of wood in 528 to serve as a lighthouse. In 1348 it was rebuilt by the Genoese under the name 'Torre de Cristo'. During the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the tower was occupied by the Great Sultan Mehmet II
- 7. In Turkish called 'Kız Kulesi' is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus. The name comes from a legend: the Byzantine emperor heard a prophecy telling him that his beloved daughter would die at the age of eighteen by a snake