Great location to discover Istanbul. It is walking distance to pretty much everything in Modern Istanbul and the tramway to Old Istanbul is only 5 minutes away. The neighborhood is very Turkish - a village in the city almost.
Mehmet provided a very warm welcome and provided a lot of information for getting around.
There was a glitch with the lighting in the bathroom which got solved the next day.
If you plan to do a lot of cooking on the appartment, you will need some creativity to work around the limited equipment. There are 4 burners in the gas cooker, but with one bowl and one saucepan, which we found rather limited.