page_title: Tokatlıyan Hotels
section_title: Beyoğlu Branch
hierarchical_section_title: Tokatlıyan Hotels / Beyoğlu Branch
caption_attribution_description: English: Tokatliyan Hotel
context_page_description: The Tokatlıyan Hotels, founded by Meguerditch Tokatliyan, were two prominent hotels located around Istanbul. The hotels were regarded as luxury hotels where many famed individuals such as Leon Trotsky and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed. They are considered among the first European-style hotels to be built in Turkey.
context_section_description: Meguerditch established the first Tokatlıyan Hotel in 1897 on the Rue de Pera (modern Istiklal Caddesi) in Pera, Beyoğlu. The hotel was first known as Hotel Splendide but the name soon changed to Hotel Tokatlıyan. It originally had 160 rooms and its furnishings were brought from Europe. The hotel contained high-ceiling halls and rooms and it also had its own coat of arms made with silver which was placed all around the hotel. The Hotel was one of the popular venues of the Istanbul high society for a long time. Many famed individuals such as Leon Trotsky, Josephine Baker, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were guests of the hotel. Atatürk considered it his favorite hotel. 
  During the First World War and the Armenian Genocide, the hotel was vandalized and its windows were broken. It was eventually passed down to the Serbian businessman Nikola Medović in 1919. One of the most notable events in this period was on 4 November 1922, when Ali Kemal, the liberal newspaper editor and former Minister of the Interior  was kidnapped from the barber shop at Tokatliyan Hotel, and was carried to the Asiatic side of the city and lynched by Republican forces.
  Subsequently the hotel came into the ownership of the Turkish businessman İbrahim Gültan, who changed the hotel's name to Konak. By the 1950s, due to lack of maintenance, the hotel was run-down and in a deteriorating state, after which the Üç Horan (Holy Trinity) Armenian Church bought the property and attained ownership.
  Today, the building still stands at its original location next to the Çiçek Pasajı. Its lower floors are used as a hotel, while other rooms are now shops and banks. Many of the upper floors, which replaced the structure’s dome, are now off-limits.
caption: The Beyoğlu building of the Tokatlıyan Hotel in 2013
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