Ortaköy & Bosphorus Bridge

How many steps lie between two continents? Until the autumn of 1973, the answer was “one ferry ride”. Anyone wishing to cross from Asia to Europe either waited for a ferry at a pier or waved down a boatman. The Bosphorus Bridge, opened on October 30, 1973, in the fiftieth year of the Republic, gave an entirely different answer: the distance between two continents was now a walk…