The apartment which I rented was on the fourth floor, the top floor in a building without a lift. The stairs from the third floor to the fourth floor were made of steel not concrete and were steeper than the concrete stairs on the lower floors. The host did not help me carry my heavy suitcase up to the fourth floor. I struggled to carry my suitcase up to the fourth floor especially from the third floor to the fourth floor. To make it worse halfway through the steel stairs narrowed considerably!
The property is in the centre of the European side of Istanbul and the busy shopping street, Istikral Street is stone's throw of the building. But it had a very bad neighbour, a bar, where loud Western music was played every night. I checked in to the apartment on a Saturday and very loud music was played until after 3 AM. There were hotels and apartments nearby the bar. I wondered how the damn bar could paly loud music until very late at night. The authorities control noise nuisance. It was obvious that the local government or the police in Istanbul did/could not control the noise nuisance. I popped out of the building late on Saturday night and noticed that the loud music was played at the bar in the next door to the building which contained my rented apartment. It seemed to me that Turkey was a banana republic.
The small studio flat had a very small bathroom and did not have a wardrobe. So I hung my clothes in the bathroom. A water pipe under the washbasin leaked and there was water on the bathroom floor all the time.