Knjiga Istanbul, Faces of Freedom ('Istanbul, Obrazi svobode') je občutljiva in čudovita zbirka fotografij in esejev, ki raziskujejo idejo svobode v urbanem okolju. Preberi več, si jo oglej in kupi TU
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Knjiga Istanbul, Faces of Freedom (‘Istanbul, Obrazi svobode’). Preberi več, si jo oglej in kupi TU
Knjiga Istanbul, Faces of Freedom (‘Istanbul, Obrazi svobode’). Preberi več, si jo oglej in kupi TU
The Bosporus shores from a ferry. It is commonly thought by the Estambulí, that the Bosporus represents not only beauty, but “Boğaz havası almak” – which means it’s also a place where one can get free from his routine and enjoy life.
Gezi park in Istanbul city centre, where in May 2013 a wave of demonstrations and civil unrests in Turkey started, initially to contest urban development plan for the park, but later on protesting against a wide range of concerns at the core of which were issues fo freedom of the press, of expression and of assembly, as well as the alleged political Islamist government’s erosion of Turkey’s secularism.
Faculty members during their daily protest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a new rector, standing quietly in the main lawn at Bogazici University, one of Turkey’s most best universities, socially distanced and with their backs turned on the office of the rector.
Balıklı Mezarligi, located in the European district of Zeytinburnu, is one of Istanbul’s Christian cemeteries, used specifically by the Armenian and Greek Orthodox communities.
In front of this door, outside on the public street in Osmanbey, Istanbul, Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of Agos newspaper, journalist and columnist, was shot dead during broad daylight on January 19, 2007, as he was going from his office.
He had received death threats from ultranationalists after writing articles concerning Turkish-Armenian identity, the Armenian origins of one of Atatürk’s adopted daughters and the role of Turkey in the genocide of Armenians during World War I.
More than 100,000 people joined his funeral, chanting “We are all Armenians”. Ogün Samast, a Turkish ultra-nationalist, was convicted of Dink’s murder in 2011, but questions remain over the alleged involvement of state security forces. In the same year European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey had failed to protect Dink’s life and freedom of expression.
The Yedikule Bostans, Istanbul’s urban gardens near the fifth-century walls that enclosed Byzantine Constantinople in Fatih municipality, may be as old as the walls. Records note that there were more than 1200 gardens on the Asian and European sides of Istanbul in the 1900s, and they could meet the city’s fruit and vegetable needs then. Today, however, there are few left, thus Yedikule Bostans represent an even more important segment of local production and consumption system; it constitutes resistance to the unsustainable industrial agricultural system. In recent decades cultural conservation and social inclusion in the gardens of Istanbul have been challenged by economic development and urban growth. There have been several conflicting development plans for Istanbul’s historical Yedikule Gardens. As one of the largest and most fertile green spaces to survive in Istanbul, they are a tangible connection to the city’s urban history, withstanding change and continuing to grow vegetables,
People of different walks like spending their free time in the popular Kadikoy Moda Sahil Parki, on the Asian side of Istanbul.
Istanbul’s Fikirtepe district is home to one of the most notorious gentrification projects in Turkey’s biggest city. Formerly a working class quarter of shabby apartment buildings and unkempt gardens has been mostly levelled and is being replaced by luxury residential high-rises, changing the neighbourhood beyond recognition and fracturing its community. The transformation of the neighbourhood started in 2011, but demolition and construction activities still continue today.
