[4][6] Meguerditch Tokatliyan eventually settled in Nice, France, where he lived the rest of his life.

Many famous individuals such as Leon Trotsky, Josephine Baker, and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk were guests of the hotel.

[11] In 1919 it was passed over to the Serbian businessman Nikola Medović On 4 November 1922, Ali Kemal, the liberal newspaper editor and former Minister of the Interior, was kidnapped from the barber shop at the hotel.

Subsequently, the hotel passed into the ownership of the Turkish businessman İbrahim Gültan, who changed its name to Konak.

[7] The Tokatlıyan Hotel is mentioned in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book, and in Agatha Christie's Parker Pyne Investigates and Murder on the Orient Express.

[18][19][20] The Tarabya branch has been used as a setting for numerous Turkish movies and TV shows such as Cici Gelin (The Good Bride), Acele Koca Aranıyor (Urgently Seeking a Husband), Arım Balım Peteğim, (My Bee, My Honey, My Honeycomb) and more.