Professor Tahire Erman, an urban planning expert at Ankara's Bilkent University, told SETimes that Istanbul is so large it is more accurate to talk about it as a region than a city.
Profesor Tahire Erman, stručnjak za urbano planiranje na Sveučilištu Bilkent u Ankari, izjavio je za SETimes kako je Istanbul tako velik da je točnije smatrati ga regijom nego gradom.