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{{Infobox|above=<center>{{#if: {{{Name|}}}|{{{Name|}}}|Istanbul}}</center> <span style="font-size:85%;"> ''Biggest City of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti)'' </span>|abovestyle={{{Abovestyle|background-color:#4DB6B0;color:#061016;}}}|bodystyle=width:305px;|caption1=<center> ''A photo of the HaliçGalata Bridge, 1962'' </center>|data2=2.13M|data3=$1.93B|data4=$909|data5=[[File:TURKIYE.png|25px]] Turkish|header1=<center>Details</center>|headerstyle={{{Headerstyle|background-color:#4DB6B0;color:#061016;}}}|label2=Population|label3=State GDP|label4=GDP/C|label5=Culture|labelstyle=width:100px;|image1=<center>[[File:Istanbul_Haliç_Bridge.jpg|315px]]</center>}}
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{{Infobox|above=<center>{{#if: {{{Name|}}}|{{{Name|}}}|Istanbul}}</center> <span style="font-size:85%;"> ''Biggest City of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti)'' </span>|abovestyle={{{Abovestyle|background-color:#4DB6B0;color:#061016;}}}|bodystyle=width:305px;|caption1=<center> ''A photo of the Haliç Bridge, 1962'' </center>|data2=2.13M|data3=$1.93B|data4=$909|data5=Turkish|header1=<center>Details</center>|headerstyle={{{Headerstyle|background-color:#4DB6B0;color:#061016;}}}|label2=Population|label3=State GDP|label4=GDP/C|label5=Culture|labelstyle=width:100px;|image1=<center>[[File:Istanbul_Haliç_Bridge.jpg|315px]]</center>}}
 
== Location, description and Geography ==
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== In-Game Description ==
What is not there to say about Istanbul-the interesction between Orient and Occident, the capital of two successivegreatsuccessive great empires and a republic turning into an empire of its own right, the seat and abode of countless generations of great statesmen, inspired artists, wise scholars, and more? Yet that is but one side of the place once known as the City of Man's Desire. As the Ottoman sultans, slowly declining away from their ancestors' prowess, withered to decadence and sheltered themselves in their palaces, the perception of the city changed.
 
 
By the time Entente troops arrived at the end of the Great War, Istanbul had already been known as a land of elitism, lavishness and arrogance-a situation that rendered it unfit to serve as the caoital for the new Turkish state. Today Istanbul, Turkey's capital of commerce and culture, unwillingly plays second fiddle to [[Ankara]]. HoweveriHowever, its decline is only in standing; as a centre of business and an economic lodestone, it continues to grow.
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