The Palazzo Venezia, the Istanbul residence of the Republic of Venice that came under Habsburg control in 1797, served as the Levantine diplomatic headquarters…
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The former burial place of Ferenc Rákóczi II and his company was the chapel of the one-time Jesuit monastery in Istanbul.
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The building of this complex consisting of a church, a monastery and a hospital was initiated by Byzantine Empress and Hungarian princess Saint Piroska…
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Strengthening ties between Hungarians and Turks before the war and becoming allies during World War I motivated the two countries to make gestures tha…
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Ferenc (Franz) Liszt arrived in Istanbul on 8th June 1847 and spent five weeks in the city. He stayed in the flat of music-seller…
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Ödön Széchenyi was born as the son of the greatest Hungarian, István Széchenyi in 1839. Later called as Ödön Pasha, he was always known…
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András Bertalan Schwarz, who worked in Leipzig after studying law in Göttingen and Hungary, was invited to teach at the reorganized University of Istanbul…
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Nigar Hanım, the first Turkish poetess (1856-1919), who was officially called Nigar bint-i Osman, was a daughter of a Hungarian father and a Turkish…
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İbrahim Müteferrika is the founder of Turkish and Islamic printing. He was the first person to print a book in the Ottoman Empire in…
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Zoltán Gulyás (1948-2015) Hungarian water polo trainer had a significant role in Hungarian water polo, but even bigger in Turkey.
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