Cross dressers

As I was wandering around Taksim today waiting for a friend I was meeting for lunch I ended up on a couple of streets I'd never ventured down before. About half way through my maze of walking back to Istiklal I passed a woman (?) wait, that's just a man dressed as a woman. As my mind registered that another cross dresser left a building to join her. Definitely a side of Istanbul I hadn't seen until today. I wonder where exactly I was....