Director’s Secrets: Challenges of Filming The Wall Around Topkapi Palace
How did a young Muslim Sultan named Mehmet breech a wall that had kept invaders out of the city for more than a thousand years? What tactics and technology turned the tide in Mehmet’s favour? - All will be revealed on Museum Secrets: Inside the Topkapi Palace Museum.
Join episode director Peter Findlay as he tells secrets about the challenges of shooting the once impenetrable wall around Topkapi Palace. Be sure to watch our latest video to get a behind the scenes perspective on the episode that airs this Thursday.
Watch our video about the Sultan’s Jannissaris, his household bodyguards.


















