be modernized, and there were many consular buildings including Sweden, Russia and France (http://www.guideistanbul.net/pera.htm).Another construction was “Bon Marche” which meant a street with stores, restaurants, cafes on both sides of the street. With invention of Bon Marche, Beyoglu started to be a different place to spend time with shopping or food ( Beyoglu Muzesi Icin Oneriler, 2000, p. 25). The establishment of new shopping centers is not yet finished in Beyoglu, more shops were opened and these shops are called “passages” as a whole. First passages were Sark Passage, Atlas Passage and European Passage (Bir Beyoglu Fotoromani, 2000, p. 40). Eser Tutel(1998) says the most known passage of Beyoglu was the Cicek Passage which was known as “Cit de Pera” (Tutel, 1998, p. 148). “…All kinds of people pass through the Cit de Pera; young people, students, workers, hungry people or homeless… Even Maria Callas had come to Cit de Pera…”(Tutel, 1998, p.148). “…Passage was not likely to go just for drinking or food, there were barber shop, bread sellers, newspaper shops…” (Tutel, 1998, p.149).In Beyoglu, there were also hotels that were very famous with their architecture (http://www.theguideturkey.com/istanbul/features/9911/beyoglu.htm). Near Mesrutiyet Street, there was Pera Palas Hotel which was built in 1892. Mata Hari, Agatha Christie, and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk stayed in Pera Palas in history (http://www.theguideturkey.com/istanbuk/features/9911/beyoglu.htm). Most of the customers of the hotels were foreigners so the hotels were in European standards (Dorsay, 1993, p.14). Although most of the European standards were not excepted in Istanbul, it was not like that for Beyoglu (Dorsay, 1993, p.14). Beyoglu was like another city in Istanbul city, which every kind of people lived happily. In the 20th century, in 1914 Capitulations were cance...
