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Istanbul's Urban Transformation [photoessay]

July 24, 2008
Yigal Schleifer, EurasiaNet
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Residents demonstrate in a demolished Sulukule home. The neighborhood in Istanbul is being torn down as part of an urban transformation project. © E.A. Roberts (flickr)Residents demonstrate in a demolished Sulukule home. The neighborhood in Istanbul is being torn down as part of an urban transformation project. © E.A. Roberts (flickr)

 
 
For the residents of Sulukule, an impoverished Istanbul neighborhood and historical Roma enclave, a city-wide "urban transformation" plan means evictions and demolitions that are leaving community ' hearts as hollow as their devastated homes. 
 

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July 24, 2009 - 9:23pm — monkfish

istanbul

i live in istanbul and i can say that istanbul changed now. there are a lot of tatil yerleri in it with good prices.
March 3, 2009 - 10:55am — jasonla

Istanbul has become the best

Istanbul has become the best place for tatil in Turkey. I go almost each year and can't wait for this summer to come.
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