At the annual real estate spring party “MIPIM” in Cannes (11th – 14th March 2014) businessmen will not be totally alone this year. For the first time in 25 years of undisturbed deal making they may meet some of their final “customers”, victims or resistors, shouting in a square of Cannes. The “European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City” organizes an international protest against the huge speculation projects, which normally get prepared and celebrated at this annual meeting of the who-is-whos in the global property market.
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“New Istanbul”: Evictions and Corruption
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