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Transportation In Istanbul

Adnan Onur Acar

In Istanbul each day nine million people uses nineteen different transportation vehicle types twenty-one million times.

GUND Winter

Hüsamettin Bahçe

Tribalism is one main and major phenomenon in Kurdish society and it can be classified into three categories, such as nomad, seminomad and settled. Since semi-nomadism and rural life style scale down in Kurdish society, the tribalism is also disintegrated.

Burgazada

Tolga Sezgin

Burgazada is the third largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul. It is officially a neighbourhood in the Adalar district of Istanbul, Turkey. Burgaz is a common setting and even a major theme for writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık, where he also resided. In 2003 Burgaz suffered a terrible forest fire, losing 4 square kilometres of its entire woodland.

Holy Visits

Fatma Çelik

Tombs are the places in which bodies of companions, who lived as Muslim or fought during Mohammed's times, or where the people who are known as sheikh are burried. The number of tombs in and around Diyarbakır are not exactly known.

Aging in Turkey

Saner Şen

Turkey’s population growth rate is above the worlds average but old age population increases still day by day. Life extension expanded 10 years in the last 20 years. 50 years ago people over the age of 60 years were %3 of general population, today they form the %10 of it. There are 7.4 million people over the age of 60 and the number is supposed to be 25 million in 2050.

Mazxana

Hüsamettin Bahçe

There is a significant distinctness almost in every respect (production, income, social infrastructure, unemployment, poverty etc.) between the east/southeast and the other regions of Turkey. According to several human development indexes the cities of the east and southeast take place at the end. The State Institute of Statics data states that average per capita income in the region comes up to one third of Turkey average. The reason of this inconvenience is the war environment in the region which lasts for 30 years.

Ergene

Tolga Sezgin

From now until about 25 years ago Ergene River was known the heartland of Thrace. Today it is extremely polluted by industrial plants, unnatural fertilizers used in agriculture, household and urban wastes.

Shatila Refugee Camp

Saygın Serdaroğlu

Shatila refugee camp is a long-term refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, set up by UNRWA in 1949. The camp is located within the Lebanese capital Beirut. As of December 2003 it housed 12.235 registered refugees.

Urban Transformation, Saraykapı

Aylin Kızıl

Urban transformation program in Turkey has come up in 2004. This policy’s main aim has been identified as “to renew the slummed places and destroy shanties (Gecekondu) settlements.” Diyarbakir’s Saraykapi district has been changing as part of urban transformation since 2009

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