İşaretlenen tüm yazılar Istanbul

One of the striking things about the revolt in Taksim Square's Gezi Park is the combination of formally opposed political groups. The secular nationalist Atatürkists have joined with

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 -

I desire to know this spring. Climbing at night the hill from Taksim and Dolapdere districts to my home neighborhood Kurtuluş LAST STOP I feel the hard night

"Memo", 25, has been living on the edges of Istanbul society since last summer. He came in August of 2011 hopping to escape violence he had faced in

In January 2012 in the Hey Textile Company 420 textile workers – most of them women – were fired without cause. They were not paid their wages for

We met them at one of the many cheap “Sulu Yemek” (“Watery Food”) restaurants. They were West African Refugees from Sierra Leone living undocumented lives in Istanbul. They

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

A few weeks ago during the Christmas season, Suleyman Yeniceri, a Turkish Müftü or Islamic Provincial Religious Leader gave a video talk on the Internet about what

A group of Turkish students and activists meet with impoverished undocumented Sierra Leone nationals in Istanbul during Ramadan. Joyous Sierra Leone and Turkish folk songs result. [vimeo clip_id="28037051" width="400"