Tokatlıyan Hotels

The Tokatlıyan hotels ( Hôtel French M. Tokatlian ), founded in 1897 by Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan, were two famous hotels in Constantine Opel. They are known as luxury hotels, where figures such as Leon Trotsky and the nation's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk descended. They were considered favorite hotels Atatürk.

History

The Tokatlıyan hotels were founded by Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan, an Ottoman citizens of Armenian descent, who moved in 1883 from Tokat to Constantinople Opel and the Armenian surnames Tokatlıyan assumed, which means "coming from Tokat ". Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan later settled in Nice, France, where he spent the rest of his life.

Pera office

Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan built the first Tokatlıyan hotel in 1897 on the Rue de Pera (today Istiklal Street ) in today's Beyoğlu. The hotel was first as Hôtel Splendide known, but soon changed the name to Hôtel M. Tokatlian. It originally had 160 rooms whose furniture equipment is imported from Western Europe. The hotel consisted of rooms and rooms with high ceilings and had its own coat of arms in silver, which was placed all around the hotel. The hotel has long been the favorite meeting place of Constantinople High Society. Many famous personalities such as Leon Trotsky, Josephine Baker and the nation's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were guests of the hotel.

It was finally in 1919 the Yugoslav entrepreneur Nikolai Medowitsch passed and then the Turkish businessman İbrahim Gültan, the umänderte the hotel name in Konak. During the 1950s, the hotel was taken and transferred to a dilapidated state of the Armenian Üç Horan ( Holy Trinity) Church due to poor maintenance.

Today, the building stands next to the Çiçek Pasajı. Its lower floors are used as a hotel, while other rooms as shops or bank in use. Many of the upper floors, which replace the dome of the building structure, can not be entered.

Therapia office

After the success of the first Tokatlıyan hotels Mıgırdiç Tokatlıyan opened in 1909 another hotel in Therapia. The hotel had 120 rooms and was on the banks of the Bosphorus. The hotel was very popular. On April 19, 1954, was severely damaged by fire. In 1964 the hotel was rebuilt and its name changed to the Büyük Tarabya Hotel. The hotel has been used for many Turkish films and television series such as Cici Gelin, Acele Koca Aranıyor, Arim Balım Peteğim and more as a backdrop.

Reception

The Tokatlıyan hotel is detected in numerous literary works, such as in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book as well as in Agatha Christie's works Parker Pyne and mentioned and described Murder on the Orient Express.