This is lovely apartment. Thoughtfully restored and decorated; clearly a labour of love.
It is in a building and wider neighbourhood whose residents are struggling with gentrification and the often culpably negligent or even plain criminal so called developments in many older cities outside Western Europe. So the care and thought put into the apartment feel like a welcome relief.
If like me you can't help peruse the book collection and the pieces the host has furnished the place with as well as the photographs exhibited you will get a sense of the host. He clearly loves Istanbul and is passionate about its direction of travel.
Thank you Iason and I hope that we can meet in person next time to talk all things Istanbul.