The Hatice Sultan Palace , a historical yalı

Yali (residence)

A yalı , literally "seashore, beach") is a house or mansion constructed at immediate waterside in Istanbul and usually built with an architectural concept that takes into account the characteristics of the coastal location...

 (waterside mansion) located at Bosporus

Bosporus

The Bosphorus or Bosporus , also known as the Istanbul Strait , is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with the Dardanelles...

 in Ortaköy

Ortaköy

Ortaköy is a neighbourhood, formerly a small village, within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, located in the middle of the European bank of the Bosphorus....

 neighborhood of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 and named after its original owner Hatice Sultan

Hatice Sultan (1766-1821)

Aliyyetü Devletlu ismetlu Hatice Sultan , was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Mustafa III and sister of Selim III. She was married in 1787 to Hotin Nakîb-mc-es-Sayyid Ahmed Pasha....

, is used today as a water sports club's building.

The residence at Defterdarburnu (Defterdar Point) in Ortaköy was used as an orphanage

Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...

 and later as a primary school after the Ottoman dynasty

Ottoman Dynasty

The Ottoman Dynasty ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I , though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan...

was exiled following the foundation of the Turkish Republic.