Around Taksim

The Attaturk Cultural Center at Taksim Square, which strangely is a circle. You can't tell in this photo but those flags and that portrait are huge

The Ataturk Cultural Center at Taksim Square.

You can't tell in this photo but those flags and that portrait of Ataturk are huge, bigger than eighteen-wheeler trucks I think.

The Center hosts several symphonies, opera and ballet companies, and a cinema. It does a range of Turkish productions along with the standard Shakespeare and Tchaikovsky sorta deals.