The governments’ gigantomanic plans for a “New Istanbul” and the connected corruption are causing victims. As “Deutsche Welle” reports thousands of villagers are being evicted from their homes north of Istanbul.
Evictions taint Turkey’s murky megaprojects
The radical online magazine “ROAR” at January 6th has started to publish a selection of “essays dealing with a wide variety of themes related to the Gezi uprising. The main questions we will be confronting are: what was Gezi all about, what remains of it today, and what is next for the movements in Turkey?”
