Visit to Istanbul - 5-8 April 2007
photos courtesy Samir Raafat
group photo at Topkapi Palace with curator Mr. Ilbert
Yali at Bebek outside Istanbul offered to Egyptian government by Princess Amina Ilhami wife of Khedive Tewfik and mother of Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik
today consulate of Egypt (architect Antonio Lasciac)
Tchibukli Saray on Asian side of Istanbul built by Khedive Abbas Hilmi II (architect Antonio Lasciac)
group photo at entrance of Tchibukli Saray
at Sultan Ahmed Mosque