Büyükdere Avenue was closed to traffic for ten hours. Büyükdere Avenue Büyükdere Avenue () is a major avenue which runs through the districts of Şişli (Esentepe quarter), Beşiktaş (Levent quarter) and Sarıyer (Maslak quarter) on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. It begins at Şişli Mosque and runs in an eastward direction partly under the viaduct of the inner-city motorway O-1 through Mecidiyeköy, Esentepe, until reaching Zincirlikuyu; where it joins with Barbaros Boulevard and turns northward passing through Levent, Sanayi Mahallesi, Maslak and by the Fatih Forest, ending at the Hacıosman Slope on the Sarıyer district border. Its total length is .
Paul Maslak Paul Maslak Paul Maslak is an American independent movie producer, book author, newsstand magazine editor and kickboxing historian. While editor of "Inside Kung Fu" magazine, he founded the STAR System World Kickboxing Ratings in 1980. These ratings were initially created as a mechanism for pressing tournament karate directors to adopt identical minimum safety procedures. With the help of colleague John Corcoran, a former PKA events coordinator and then editor of "KICK Illustrated" magazine, he expanded the STAR ratings into professional kickboxing in response to the organizational partisanship of the contender rankings generated by the sport’s major sanctioning bodies. As magazine