The shining star of Kadife Street in Kadıköy: Suitcase

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The shining star of Kadife Street in Kadıköy: Suitcase

Kadife Sokak, known as the street of bars by the people of Kadıköy, was an area where mostly Armenian families lived in the past and later became a street of bars. It is still called Kadife Sokak today because of the many velvet shops that accompanied the street in the early 20th century. Perhaps it is because the Apollon Theater of the Turks and the Theatron Halkidonas of the Greeks were also present here at that time, that the street has a dif…