Interior designer Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu’s Istanbul

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I was born in Istanbul and grew up in my grandparents’ house in Yeniköy, a neighbourhood right on the Bosphorus. It’s a special place that has always had a mix of fishermen and business owners – and an ever-changing view of boats passing by. Rumeli, the European side of Istanbul, is more reminiscent of Eastern Rome-Byzantium, while the other side, Anatolia,…