Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge

The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü, better known in English as the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, carries the name of Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453. That conquest ended the Byzantine Empire and turned the city into the Ottoman capital, so the bridge’s name points back to one of the most decisive moments in Istanbul’s history. This is the city’s second Bosphorus bridge, and it links the European and Asian sides over the strait that has shaped trade, armies, and daily life for centuries. In Turkish, the bridge’s name keeps the honorific “Fatih,” meaning “the Conqueror,” which is still one of the most recognizable titles attached to Mehmed II. From this side of the water, the bridge belongs to the modern skyline, but its name reaches back more than 500 years to the city’s transformation in 1453. …

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