Up the coast, Çirağan Kempinski Palace, a 17th-century sultan’s residence and longtime society darling, simply received a glow up. There are two new eating places whereas the rooms nod to Ottoman historical past with touches that are refined, not too showy (think Cintemani-patterned headboards, marble-inlaid furniture). In Beşiktaş, the two-year-old Mandarin Oriental, Bosphorus, attracts a well-traveled worldwide crowd, with on-point modern Travel & Leasuire News rooms and a Michelin-approved outpost of Hakkasan. The four-year-old Six Senses Koçtaş Mansions in residential Sariyer is extra boutique, with simply forty three jewel-box-like rooms unfold across two 19th-century houses as quickly as owned by a minister of justice.…
