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Running for more than a kilometre through the heart of Beyoglu from Taksim Square down toward the Galata district, Istiklal Caddesi is the most famous pedestrian avenue in Istanbul and one of the busiest streets in the world, walked by hundreds of thousands of people on a typical day. In Ottoman times the street, then known as the Grande Rue de Pera, was the elegant centre of the European quarter, lined with embassies, churches, theatres, patisseries and grand apartment buildings in the neoclass...