Of Sultans and Slave Girls – Behind the Walls of the Imperial Harem

This post is also available in: GermanFew places are as shrouded in mystery as the Imperial Harem on the Topkapi palace grounds in Istanbul. Apart from the Sultan himself and the black eunuch servants, men were forbidden from entering – or even getting near it for that matter. Even the girls, once passing through the gates, seldom came back out to tell their tale.