http://wowturkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52299
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenerbah%C3%A7e_feneri
http://www.denizcigunlugu.com/sikca-sorulan-sorular/926-osmanli-bogazici-deniz-fenerleri-kiz-kulesi.html
İstanbul’daki Deniz Fenerleri
Boğazın Marmara girişindeki Yeşilköy ve Ahırkapı fenerleri gibi, Karadeniz girişinde de Rumeli ve Şile fenerleri durmaksızın yanıp sönmektedir. Just like Yeşilköy and Ahırkapı do at the Marmara entrance of Bosphorus, Rumeli and Şile lighthouses continuously flash on and off at the Black Sea entrance.
There are 37 small and big lighthouses along the Bosphorus Strait. Look how they wink:
http://www.bekirdildar.com/denizfeneleri_net/istanbulda/istanbulda.htm
Historically the most interesting ones are Fenerbahçe, Yeşilköy, Ahırkapı, Rumeli and Şile. At times, Kız kulesi has also been used as a guide for sailors.

The story of Fenerbahçe dates back to the Byzantine period when a lighted castle was built over the cliffs to meet vessels at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus. The lighthouse was mentioned by the name Bağçe-i Fener in Ottoman documents as early as in the days of Suleiman the Magnificient. It was probably built again in the beginning of the 18th century. Ahmed III, the Emperor of the reformative and humanist Tulip era, had his vizier’s head cut off and body thrown to the sea from the Fenerbahçe lighthouse. The present building has been standing there in Kadiköy since 1837.
İngiliz işgali sırasında İngiliz askerleri kuleye çıkmak isterler. Fenerci Mediha Hanım ve annesi, içkili askerleri ellerinde sopayla kovarlar. During the English occupation, English soldiers wanted to enter the tower. The lighthouse keeper Mediha Hanım and her mother drove the drunken soldiers away with sticks in their hands.
In 1755 a disasterous shipwreck took place in front of Kumkapı . While emperor Osman III was watching the resque work a sailor told him there is an urgent need for a lighthouse in the strait. Today Ahırkapı in the district of Fatih in is the second highest lighthouse in Turkey and its height is at 40 metres above sea level.
Ahırkapı Feneri, fenercilik geleneğinin son örneği olan fenerde bir ailenin yaşadığı son Fenerlerden. The Ahırkapı lighthouse which represents the highest technics of lighthouses is one of the last lighthouses where a family lives.
The biggest lighthouse in Turkey is in the Black Sea side of Bosphorus. The 60-metre-high black and white Şile feneri was built by a French constructor in 1859 during the Crimean war in order to protect English and French ships passing through the strait. Şile lighthouse now functions as a museum.
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