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This impressive Ottoman fortress which is located at the meeting point of famous city walls of Teodosius and sea walls dates to time of Mehmet the conquerer who added towers and walls to famous Golden gate of former Byzantine city.

 Used as a dungeon by the the Ottomans,  Yedikule Fortress witnessed the imprisonment of many famous figures of the history. Even one of the Ottoman Sultans, Osman was imprisoned and eventually kiled by the Janisseries at Yedikule. in 1622. Osman was only 18 years old when he was killed by the soldiers.

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