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Diogenes Club
The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentleman's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as "The Greek Interpreter". It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (although this is never explained in the original stories) and was co-founded by Sherlock's indolent elder brother, Mycroft Holmes.
The club is described by Sherlock Holmes in the story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" as follows:
Relation to British Secret Service.
Statue of Diogenes
The Statue of Diogenes () is a monument to the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope born in Sinop, Turkey in about 412 BC.
Sinop is known as the birthplace of Diogenes in the 5th century BC. Sinop municipality decided to erect a statue of Diogenes. Its creator was Turan Baş of the Ondokuz Mayıs University in Samsun. The statue was erected in 2006.
It is situated at the center of the narrowest point of Sinop Peninsula isthmus. Other historically notable places of the city are