Istanbul is a Euro-style board game designed by Rüdiger Dorn and illustrated by Andreas Resch and Hans-Georg Schneider, published in 2014 by Pegasus Spiele.
Istanbul won the Kennerspiel des Jahres award in 2014.
An expansion, Istanbul: Mocha & Baksheesh, which includes coffee, guild halls and taverns, was released in 2015.
At various locations, you can leave assistants to handle specific tasks and you need to pick them up again, once finished.
During the game, the merchant pushes a wheelbarrow of increasable size and acquires special abilities, but most importantly buys and sells goods in order to be the first one to acquire five rubies.