Friday, May 31, 2013

How to Bulldoze a Traditional Cultural Property: Turkey Shows the Way

For an example of a less-than optimal way to handle treatment of a traditional cultural property, see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/occupygezi-protests-istanbul-taksim_n_3366583.html?utm_hp_ref=world .  It's sad to see a nation as sophisticated as Turkey dealing with its special places, and its people, this way -- but we in the U.S. are hardly qualified to criticize.

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