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Turkish “Muslim Leftists” on May Day | İstanbul Voices
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Turkish “Muslim Leftists” on May Day. May 10, 2012. Recently the so called “Muslim Leftist” movement or “Green Left” has been growing among religiously minded progressive Turks. I visited my friend Kadir Bal and his friends – activists in the movement – a few days before this year’s May Day. Watch and learn some of their goals and desires. Subscribe to the comments on this post. Click here to cancel reply. 102;ourteen. Larr; Knowing Spring Time in Kurtuluş LAST STOP. Subscribe to the comments on this post.
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NEW TURKEY FORGED IN GEZI PARK | İstanbul Voices
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NEW TURKEY FORGED IN GEZI PARK. June 6, 2013. Just last year the Turkish economy was booming. The wealthy were getting wealthy. The poor poorer. Nike told us to just do it and we just did it. Everyone seemed. At any rate, Erdoğan is thought by many involved in the revolt to be pushing for a direct Islamist cultural and political take over of Turkey. The engine that keeps Gezi Park in Taksim Square crowded is the remarkable coalition that’s formed among otherwise warring groups–the secularist ...Groups ha...
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Why He Can’t Wear Trash Sorting Gloves | İstanbul Voices
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Why He Can’t Wear Trash Sorting Gloves. May 27, 2011. Trash sorter and writer Ali Mendillioğlu. Years ago Ali had worked as a painter of skyscrapers in Ankara, Turkey. He liked the climb up the ladder, the walk on the narrow wooden board to his place on the side of a huge building. Ali would paint for hours, loving the sunlight and breeze and fresh air. Subscribe to the comments on this post. May 27, 2011 at 5:11 pm. May 27, 2011 at 5:53 pm. May 27, 2011 at 9:40 pm. What an ingenious piece of writing!
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Istanbul, You Are Awake! | İstanbul Voices
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Istanbul, You Are Awake! And A Young Kurd. January 27, 2012. Today I walked across town, over the Ataturk Bridge which spans the Golden Horn and took these photos. The wind pressed hard on my face and I wore the hand-me down jacket my father had bought for Wisconsin winters back in 1973. I wore boots and my gloveless hands froze quickly to icicles in my pockets. Nights when the Turkish. Subscribe to the comments on this post. Sean David Hobbs is a writer and multimedia journalist who lives in Istanbul...
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Street Boys Out of Darkness | İstanbul Voices
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Street Boys Out of Darkness. February 2, 2012. From under bridges and out of dark corners we have come to say no to a problem in society. Some of us have been assaulted without mercy by the police; and we live on the outskirts, rejected by all. Even if this is so we don’t look at life with dichotomy, with a you and with an us. For us you are the ones who live in homes. For you we are the ones who live on the streets. So come together and let’s share as humans. You are us and we are you. But still you sca...
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HUNDREDS INJURED IN POLICE ATTACK ON GEZI PARK | İstanbul Voices
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HUNDREDS INJURED IN POLICE ATTACK ON GEZI PARK. June 16, 2013. At 8:50 pm on Saturday evening, June 15. The Turkish police with the help of their plain clothes officers over ran the occupying protestors of Istanbul’s Gezi Park. After the initial attacks a few hours ago, the Governor of Istanbul Avni Mutlu said that only 29 people were slightly injured in the attacks which started because, Mutlu explained, marginal leftist groups attacked the police in Taksim Square. While no one knows an exact causality ...
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Egyptian Refugee/Immigrant in Istanbul | İstanbul Voices
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Egyptian Refugee/Immigrant in Istanbul. May 4, 2012. I interviewed him in Istanbul’s Kurtuluş district:. Subscribe to the comments on this post. Sean David Hobbs is a writer and multimedia journalist who lives in Istanbul. He works to chronicle the stories of the voiceless in Istanbul and can be reached at sean.david@istanbulvoices.org. His memoir about Istanbul called "Sex and Homeland" is his second book. May 14, 2012 at 9:18 pm. Hi sean take care of yourself. Click here to cancel reply.
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Turkish Election: Roma in Taşlıtarla | İstanbul Voices
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Turkish Election: Roma in Taşlıtarla. May 12, 2011. Uncle Baki, A Roma Elder in Taşlıtarla. One day if you happenstance upon the Gypsy neighborhood of Taşlıtarla in Istanbul you’ll see huge collection sacks and piles of cardboard. Taşlıtarla is not like in the Turkish movies and television shows where we see every house in a Gypsy neighborhood echoing with music and the gypsies smiling and fighting with each other using sweet slang words. Besides all of these negative realities the thing which froze my b...
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Smuggler’s Voice in Istanbul | İstanbul Voices
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Smuggler’s Voice in Istanbul. February 2, 2012. In evening of December 28. 2011 in the Turkish region of Uludere on Turkey’s eastern boarder with northern Iraq a group of villagers who were smuggling goods and diesel from Iraq into Turkey were killed in a bombing by Turkish Air force F16s. 34 civilians of Turkey from the nearby village of Guzelyazi were killed in the attack. According to reports many of the dead were under the age of 18. The heads of Guzelyazi village and other nearby villages are part o...
