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"Istanbul (state)" as a book category designates works that treat Istanbul primarily as a political, administrative, and institutional entity rather than as a literary or purely cultural setting. It covers the city’s governance and public institutions from the Ottoman period through the Turkish Republic to contemporary municipal and metropolitan administration, including urban planning, infrastructure and public services, law and policing, electoral and party politics, state-society relations, migration and refugee policy, security and diplomacy where Istanbul plays a governmental role, and economic/industrial policy as shaped by state actors. Typical formats include historical studies, political-science analyses, legal and policy reports, biographies of officials, and case studies that use archival sources or official documents; fiction, travelogues or cultural works are excluded unless they explicitly analyze the role of the state. The category is aimed at scholars, students, policymakers, and readers interested in how Istanbul functions as a seat of power and an object of state action.

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