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Awakening Pera

Awakening Pera

by | Jun 28, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

When a small group of environmentalists and liberals started sleeping in a small, overlooked park next to Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, slated for replacement by a mall, I thought little aside from being infused by a private kind of sadness. It meant the adding of...