Ozturk said the dolphins are attracted to the Bosphorus for the same reason many fishermen are.
The scientists explained that harbor porpoises are the smallest and most elusive of the Bosphorus dolphins.
Three bodies of water meet here: the Golden Horn, Bosphorus Strait and Sea of Marmara.
The canal today is taken for granted, much like the Bosphorus or the Strait of Gibraltar.
Part restaurant, part nightclub, Anjelique sits on the Bosphorus waterfront in a three-story mansion.
To get your city bearings, climb aboard a Turyol tourist ferry ( www.turyol.com) and take a 90-minute Bosphorus cruise.
Once a week, Ozturk and Dede rent a small touring boat and set out into the Bosphorus.
The 34 storeys are divided into three blocks, and high floors have views of the city skyline and across the Bosphorus.
That's easy to escape because the one place in the city devoid of cars remains the place to be: the Bosphorus.
On the left bank of the Bosphorus, before the marbled splendor of the Ciragan Imperial Palace, the government of Turkey was sponsoring a feast.
Cruise the Bosphorus in style and make the most of the majestic, age-old views by chartering a private boat for a sunset trip.
In addition to migratory dolphins, the marine biologists have concluded that a group of 60 larger, bottlenose dolphins live permanently in the Bosphorus.
Occupying a former warehouse on the shores of the Bosphorus, it displays work from its permanent collection as well as organizes temporary exhibitions.
On a windy point called Arnavutkoy, on the European side of the Bosphorus, clusters of weather-beaten fishermen hurled their fishing lines deep into the channel.
Marine biologists call them the "street children" of the Bosphorus Strait.
Even if you are not staying in one of the elite hotels, take advantage of the unbeatable Bosphorus views with a laidback hotel restaurant lunch on the water.
Indeed, the gilded youth of Istanbul in their Italian clothes were sitting under huge windows through which the lights of Asia and the Bosphorus shone, drinking, like us, bottles of Rioja Alta.
Heading back to pack our bags beneath those same glowering ancestors (who somehow now look less forbidding) we consider how the misadventure of an ill-timed traffic jam on the Bosphorus Bridge brought us to this hidden island paradise.
Ozturk and her Turkish colleague, Dr. Ayhan Dede, have been studying the three species of dolphins commonly found in the Bosphorus, a 20-mile long channel which bisects Istanbul, a city of more than 10 million people, and runs from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
The second pavilion, 'The Calling', reflecting Florence's underlying belief in her call to God's service, recreates the climax of Nightingale's life: her experiences during the Crimean War in the years 1854 to 1856, when she led a Government-sponsored party of nurses to the military hospitals at Scutari on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, and then to the Crimea itself, and in so doing became a national heroine.
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