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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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