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A TRIP AROUND THE GOLDEN HORN

n 1981 the little Kocatas was one of a number of coal-fired, steampowered ferries which still operated daily services from a landing stage by Istanbul’s Galata Bridge. Unlike the city’s larger boats, which traversed up, down and across the Bosphorus, Kocatas maintained only a local service along the Golden Horn, Istanbul’s picturesque but

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