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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Old French Orphanage Turned Into a Cafe - Istanbul

Palais Saint-Eugène was built in 1868 as an orphanage and was named as Saint-Joseph House. In the 20th century, it became Garabet Cezayirliyan's plasterboard workshop. Later, Kemal Cinbiz took over the workshop. The building also housed the world's only known plasterboard museum. In the plasterboard museum, there were pieces of plasterboard from buildings such as Dolmabahçe Palace, the Pera Museum, Sultan Adile's Palace and Sait Halim Pasha's mansion. The building, whose papier-mache museum on the upper floor was closed in 2020, also hosted the 2022 Istanbul Biennial. Today, the building is empty. Now, in its garden, there's a cafe called Tophane Mekan, which belongs to the municipality of Beyoglu, on April 2025 in Istanbul Turkey. Photo by Ilker Eray/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Finance ministry's Hirata sold stocks despite ban on trading

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata is surrounded by reporters after a House of Councillors Budget Committee session on March 26. A document showed that Hirata sold a massive number of shares of a plasterboard maker in off-market trading in early March despite a ban on stock trading under the ethics code for politically appointed ministers.

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Finance ministry's Hirata sold stocks despite ban on trading

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata is surrounded by reporters after a House of Councillors Budget Committee session on March 26. A document showed that Hirata sold a massive number of shares of a plasterboard maker in off-market trading in early March despite a ban on stock trading under the ethics code for politically appointed ministers. (Kyodo)