There is a "metro" under construction, it has led to the destruction of hundreds of houses in poor neighbourhoods, that still flank the area.

Several Kurdish people living there. I cannot help it, they will almost always make gestures that some will interpret as linked to terrotist acts. I once again brace myself for the protests this will generate. I am so used to both the gestures and the protests that no, I will not not take those pictures. They are part of Turkish life (that some prefer to ignore).