The Turkish House is both a picturesgue image and a historical fact. Since the sixteenth century, descriptions of travelers and the engravings and paintings of western artists depicting Ottoman lands introduced to the world images of a different urban tradition and the existence of a different dwelling concept. Europeans regarded the physiognomy of the Ottoman capital, İstanbul, and other great cities of the Empire such as Edirne, Bursa, İzmir, Konya, Amasya and lesser towns from the Balkans to Iran and Mesopotamia with mixed feeling of wonder and disdain. (106 renkli resim-28 siyah beyaz resim, 167 plan)