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And at the Topkapi Palace, surely the chefs rose above kebabs and mezes to keep the sultan well fed?
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The same security is in place at the Topkapi Palace, the jewel in the city's crown and its top tourist attraction.
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Other Biennial-related highlights include Bertrand Ivanoff's neon installations on the old Orthodox Palestinian Christian Church and Johan Tahon's milky ceramic figures set in a 15th-century tiled kiosk in walls of the Topkapi Palace.
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But the hapless pasha was decapitated, his severed head being duly placed in a gourd full of honey and exposed at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul, after he was implicated in a plot to overthrow the sultan.
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"Uncover the secrets of Topkapi Palace" is her tour of the city's famous and infamous royal residence and harem.
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The article 'Uncover the secrets of Topkapi Palace' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.
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The row erupted in January when Mr Packard's foundation proposed that most of the Zeugma mosaics whose recovery he had helped finance be displayed in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace.
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