Alev Scott
Reina evoked hedonism. The club was a caricature of high Istanbul living, of decadence divorced from reality. Isolated on a piece of prime real estate on the European bank of the Bosphorus, the club had a kind of naked showiness—water taxis ferried the super rich to its doors. Reina was not representative of Turkey’s “secular elite” but of something more stereotypically, lavishly “Western.”