Scale of destruction in Istanbul forests increasingly visible 20 October 2013 /E. BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ, İSTANBUL One of the few projects that environmentalists say will be the end of İstanbul’s last […]
Photo by Yaşar Adnan Adanalı – Tarlabaşı’s fences after the fire The AKP government came to power in 2002 in the aftermath of one of Turkey’s worst financial crises. […]
One of the epic pictures from the Occupy Gezi movement:
To the Government and the Citizens of Turkey Across the country, particularly in Istanbul-Taksim, all the citizens are demonstrating their democratic reaction to the police violence pursued by the government […]
Turkey Emek cinema protesters released after clash Four people detained during a protest against the closure of the famous Emek cinema in Istanbul on Sunday have been released pending a […]
Urban sprawl hid and fed terrorism: Turkish PM Economic and social factors such as poverty, unemployment, bad housing and urban sprawl have been important factors that have fed terrorism year […]
Nowadays, in parallel with the increasing weight of the construction sector in the Turkish economy, a large portion of print and visual ads promote real estate developers’ concept housing, residence […]
The construction work for the Taksim Project had just started. You can find my article published in Trialog Journal on this project and its broader discursive framework here. THE REIGN […]
New Museum presents IDEAS CITY: Istanbul Sponsored by Audi Urban Future Initiative Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, invites you to IDEAS CITY: Istanbul THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 7–8 PM Keynote Address […]
My lecture on the political & urban transformation in the Middle East and limits to the ‘Turkish Model’. This was presented at the Integrated Urbanism Dialogues Conference, Stuttgart, Germany […]
It is hard to keep the record of real-estate projects in Istanbul. Hundreds of gated communities, high-rise residential towers, office buildings, shopping malls, and multi-use projects are mushrooming all around […]
Although İstanbul’s current transformation has been presented as a non-Western miracle of development in the face of the destructive effects of economic crises, it is actually possible to think of this transformation as […]
Turkey’s booming drama production industry and its wide-open global reception is often considered to be the symbol of an emerging ‘soft’ power. Istanbul, the city of many contradictions as in […]
Feminism or Femen-ism Where ever you live, probably you heard or saw one of the ”topless” demonstrations of Ukrainian-based activist group, FEMEN. This time, they were (for less than 2 […]
Undoubtedly, one of the most important public spaces in Turkey is the Taksim Square. In the minds and hearts of Istanbulites and anyone who visits the city, Taksim will remain […]
DIGITAL ARCHITECTURAL PAPERS POSITIONS 1 a collage from interviews with Yaşar Adanali (Istanbul), George Arbid (Beirut), Rami Daher (Amman) and Wael Samhouri (Damascus) by Marianne Baumgartner, Krunoslav Ivanisin An extract […]
Two satellite images of Istanbul clearly shows the urban development took place since the construction of the two bridges connecting Asian and European sides of the city. The Third Bridge […]
Call to International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI) to organize a Zero-Eviction Campaign in Istanbul We, as NGOs, neighbourhood associations, grassroots, urban movements and platforms plus academicians, activists, architects, planners, legal […]