Beyoğlu Tokatlıyan Oteli
Beyoğlu Tokatlıyan Oteli stands in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district, near Çiçek Pasajı, among the area’s historic streets and buildings. Its façade recalls a grand European-style hotel. Shops now occupy the ground floor, while most upper floors remain inaccessible.
Meguerditch Tokatliyan established the hotel in 1897, first naming it Hotel Splendide. One hundred and sixty rooms, European furnishings, and high ceilings once welcomed Istanbul’s social elite. Leon Trotsky, Josephine Baker, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed here, with Atatürk regarding it as his favourite place to lodge. The building suffered vandalism and damage during the First World War and the Armenian genocide, then passed to Nikola Medović in 1919.
A barber shop inside hosted the 1922 kidnapping of newspaper editor Ali Kemal. Later called Konak, the property declined during the 1950s before the Üç Horan Armenian Church acquired it. A restored façade now faces Beyoğlu, while the surviving ground-floor shops keep the building connected to the lively street.
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