From several walks and bus rides I knew that the region to the west of Tarlabaşı Caddesi was being … well, it depends a bit on how you see it. For some it is “being destroyed”, for others it is “being renovated”, for some it will be “pushing the original, generally poor inhabitants out”, for others it will be “lifting the area up to its proper level”. In much of the world we’d say gentrification is on the move.
I have on occasion visited the area, and in 2017 decided to document what it was like, if only because it might be a last chance of seeing it as it once was. Lots of plots were already destroyed. Returning in 2019 I found the sitution was changing, but not as fast as I had expected, maybe because of the problems in the building sector and the juridical ostacles. From an article in the Hürriyet Daily News I knew ““All expropriations [in this project] thus far have violated the right to private property and made land owners in Tarlabaşı victims [of the project], according to the latest Council of the State ruling”

It was unclear where I left the area, so at the end of this series there are some pictures from the fringe or beyond the region proper. You might want to compare this gallery to a somewhat similar one.