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yards was filled up with stones where the sea formed a bay, and the
place was called 'the filled-up garden,' or Dolmabahçe.”
Evliya goes on to tell one of his astonishing stories about his
unpredictable friend, Murat IV: “Sultan Murat IV happened once to
be reading at Dolmabahçe the satirical work
Sohami
of Nefii Efendi,
when the lightning struck the ground near him; being terrified he
threw the topic into the sea, and then gave orders to Bayram Paşa to
strangle the author Nefii Efendi.”
And on that mad note we will end our tour. We might then retrace
our steps to the square before Dolmabahçe; from there we can return
to Taksim along the Ayazpaşa road, which winds uphill to the left of
the football stadium.
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