Originally Posted by
NarcolepsisMaximus
Thanks so much for the resources - definitely what I was looking for! Yeah, I'll be in Istanbul - it's for business reasons so I don't have a lot of leisure time while I'm there and will probably be just rushing around with my colleagues but I wanted to be prepared. It was a last minute emergency addition to our itinerary.
Istanbul isn't an issue for a woman alone.
In the city, you see all types of dress, from fully covered up (usually people coming from eastern villages) to fashionable miniskirts with high heeled sandals, although some sophisticated and well educated young Turkish women do choose to wear headscarves. Out of respect, I wouldn't wear anything extremely revealing as you might want make an unplanned visit to some historic mosque.