A semi-finished new development stands in the background of a Ottoman charitable fountain in the Nesleshan neighbourhood adjoining Sulukule.
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A man climbs down from the roof of his semi-demolished house as a wrecking vehicle batters a building across the road.
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A scrap-metal collector rummages among the rubble and twisted wires left behind by the demolition teams.
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A woman walks to her local grocer, one of the few businesses that will make the transition into the new neighbourhood.
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A homeless man fashions a makeshift shelter for himself in the ruins of the Byzantine walls surrounding Istanbul next to the new headquarters of Istanbul’s national gas company.
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A young Roma boy twirls on his head during a break-dancing demonstration in the summer of 2007.