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Tarlabasi

29 images Created 9 Apr 2016

Since 2005, the city of Istanbul is moving forward with a controversial project called “The Tarlabasi Renovation project”. It claims to renew this poor area of Istanbul, tearing down more than 20 000 square meters of old buildings, and replacing them with brand new apartments, hotels, condos, shopping malls, etc. The problem is that 95% of the population living in this area are Kurdish and Gypsies.
There is no way that they will be able to afford an apartment in the rebuilt area.
Most of them are going to be evicted to one of the suburbs surrounding Istanbul.
They will be moved from a very poor area to another one. The situation there is very explosive. You can feel the tension when you talk to the Kurdish
people living in Tarlabasi. The “Tarlabasi Renovation Project” aimed to be finished by 2015.

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  • 18/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Gate delimiting demolition area plan by the Tarlabasi renovation Project.
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  • 15/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - A small alley in Tarlabasi. Aluminium gates are all over delimiting the demolition areas.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Aluminium gates are all over delimiting the demolition areas.
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  • 18/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Mercedes stolen five years ago. Never reported.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - My interpret told me that a painting artist use to live here but he don't remember his name.
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  • 17/10/2013 - Turkey - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Backyards are often use as a dump.
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  • 15/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Building who's going to be demolish for the Tarlabasi renovation project. It is very hazardous to penetrate as lot of them are use for drugs deal.
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  • 15/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - A man sweeping the rest of the blood from the beef killing in from of one of the building who's going to be demolish for the Tarlabasi renovation project.
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  • 5/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Young boy watching people killing a beef for the celebration of the muslim's holiday, Aïd el-Kebir.
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  • 15/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - As this kind of ritual is forbidden in Turkey, they must rush up before police shows up.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - The meats is separate into several pack and will serve to feed several families.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - The old man give his advice on witch knifes to use to cut the meat.
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  • 15/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - A man is covering with sand, the blood from the the killed beef.
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  • 17/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Just two young girls playing outside and want me so much to take their photo.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - I found out that young boys just love to play with plastic guns.
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  • 15/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Satellite dishes are all over as it is the most economical way to capture foreign TV stations.
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  • 17/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - As some houses who's going to be demolish don't have neither electricity or heating system, this man is drying his clothes and himself with a bone fire made of cardboard boxes in this cold morning in tarlabasi.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Turkey - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Two young Kurdish brothers.
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  • 18/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Part of the houses going to be demolish in 2014.
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  • 17/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Akure, 15 years old told us that he will move to another area of Istanbul. He don't know which one right now. He would like to find work as he no loner go to school.
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  • 18/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - The PKK has strong support in the Tarlabasi area.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Two friends relaxing in couch front of one of a house who's going to be demolish.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Young man hiding is face and doing the victory sign siting in a tree beside an advertising for the new apartments that are going to be sale when the project is finish.
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  • 18/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Kids playing the water dropping from the car after a heavy rain.
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  • 17/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Sebahat Tuncel, Kurdish representative deputy at the Turkish assembly, explain to me her worries about the Tarlabasi renovation project and the impact on the poorest population in Istanbul.
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  • 16/10/2013 - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - Dagul have a small bakery in Tarlabasi. He is explaining to my interpret, Ogus, that he have to close and move out of this building before end of December. He really don't know where to go.
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  • 17/10/2013 - Turkey - Istanbul - Tarlabasi area - During meeting of the democratic Kurdish party, the BTP. Picture on the left, the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and center, the three PKK woman activists assassinated in france on the 10 February 2013; Fidan Dogan, Sakine Cansiz and Leyla Soylemez. The Turkish, American and Israeli secret services been blame for organizing these crimes.
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