Osmanbey is one of the four neighbourhoods (together with
Teşvikiye,
Maçka and
Pangaltı) within the
Nişantaşı quarter of the
Şişli district in
Istanbul,
Turkey.
Osmanbey is also home to the
Beth Israel Synagogue built in 1940.[1] The Turkish-Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink was murdered outside the office of Agos Newspaper in Osmanbey in 2007.
References
^The transformation of the Jewish community of Istanbul Volume 1 - Page 52 Ilan Karmi - 1990 "Several synagogues were built in Sisli and the surroundings as well (the last one, "Beth Israel", was built in Osmanbey in 1940) ; presently, a large part of the Istanbul Jewry is residing in this area.