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What do you get when you put 12 atheists in a room with a Christian priest, a Buddhist monk, a Jewish rabbi and a Muslim imam?
Last November saw the opening of the Park Hyatt in Istanbul's smart Nisantasi district. Randy Gerner of Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel in New York was put in charge of designing the interior of the 90-room hotel that's housed in the 1920s Macka Palas.
Known in Turkish as "Adalar", these nine small islands have since antiquity been a place of reflection, leisure and exile.
It's 70 years since the death of Atatuerk, founder of the Turkish Republic.
The Turkish military is fighting a war with Kurdish militants outside the country and the ruling AK Party (AKP) within it - in July senior military figures were charged with trying to stage what would have been the country's fourth coup.
