Directly in front of the Beyazit Mosque is the main gate into the Istanbul University. Entry through the gate was like going into the airport and only students and lecturers with university passes were allowed in. Pakdokter and partner wanted to look-see the campus before proceeding to the Sulaimaniye Mosque located behind the university as we could see from the map. So pakdokter's partner used her charm and asked the military-like university guards as to how we could go to the Sulaimaniye Mosque. To our surprise he asked us to come in through his security check-point and to walk across the campus to the back and exit via their gate at the other end.
This must ne a branch campus. It is fronted by a large garden/park before we hit the aministrative office in front of which there is a bronze sculture as well as a basque of the ?founding scholar. The academic block is a u-shaped building with a central courtyard. Pakdokter could determine what faculties were sited at this campus.
On the map pakdokter detected another bigger campus of this unversity located a few kilometres away but still within the walls of the Old Constantinople. There is also a gospital within that campus and pakdokter reckons the medical faculty must be sited at the other campus. So pakdokter's friend, Prof Mehmet - Turkish expert in marital-family therapy, must be teaching there. However pakdokter had lost contact with him for some time.
the main gate of the Istanbul University
the park that occupies the front half of the campus
bronze sculpture in front of the admin block
founding scholar?
the campus faculty from the back end of the campus ground
the central courtyard of the faculties block
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