Word: neighborhooding
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...Mustafa Demir, mayor of the conservative Fatih municipality which is running the demolition program, says it's a much-needed social renewal project "to replace hovels." Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Sulukule "ugly", and expressed bewilderment over anti-demolition protests. That the neighborhood is in desperate need of a cleanup is clear, but critics accuse officials of failing to involve one of the city's oldest communities in plans for its redevelopment. Instead, the Roma have been offered two options: They can sell their property at a rate far below market prices (or face having it expropriated), or they...
...runs back and forth among the dilapidated houses, stopping occasionally to expertly shimmy their hips and twirl their wrists. They're chased by several whooping boys, who inevitably catch them and haul them off to "jail," a spot by a wall. The gypsy children of Istanbul's impoverished Sulukule neighborhood - home to the world's oldest Roma community - call this game Cops and Bellydancers, a homespun version of Cops and Robbers amended to reflect their own experience of being born into a life of dancing and dodging the police...
...Roma of Istanbul are very poor, earning on average around $250 a month, but the land they inhabit, once unimportant and peripheral, is now prized real estate minutes away from the city center. If contractors and the local municipality have their way, the entire neighborhood of Sulukule - home to 3,500 residents - is to be razed by the end of the year to make way for a gated community of 620 up-market neo-Ottoman townhouses...
...Enters a Paul Mitchell salon and demands a job: is mocked by the employees as he disco dances his way out of the shop Borat: Sings the national anthem at a southern rodeo, gets booed by the crowd as he deliberately botches the words. Jesus: Walks his new California neighborhood to introduce himself as a sex offender...
...side of which is occupied by Israeli shopkeepers, while the other is rented out to Palestinians. They exist in uneasy, yet potentially volatile, harmony. They are, however, threatened by a greedy realtor who's raising their rents in order to drive them out so he can erect a neighborhood-busting shopping mall...