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Let's go, Nebahat Abla, hop into the professor's car, our course is set, my dear gas, my dear gas… Taksim, Şişli, Sarıyer, we don't stop, we go straight ahead, my dear, please, stop at Istinye… Once the subject of films and songs, the dolmuşes now bring us a pleasant nostalgia, but due to technological advancement, transportation has completely changed and taken on an entirely new form. The round-bodied 1955 Chevrolet models have been replaced by yellow taxis, which are hard to catch, and the crowded minibuses, where money is passed hand to hand from back to front, have been succeeded by the large vehicles of public transportation. The dolmuşes, which first appeared toward the end of the 1920s and reached their golden age between the 1950s and 1980s, were undoubtedly an essential part of society. They operated throughout Istanbul, carrying people from home to work and back from work to home.
İçinden Dolmuş Geçen İstanbul tells exactly this story. It shares its fascinating history with us, its place in our literary and cinematic world, and sometimes even through a sociological lens. If you'd like to take a sweet journey through the dolmuş from past to present, then please, come along…