Is Istanbul’s historical areas are going to remain on UNESCO’s World Heritage List or not was one of the questions discussed between the authorities and experts critical of the municipal administration’s policies that they claim are destroying the centuries-old monuments and neighborhoods. Recently a dispatch from the semi-official Anatolian Agency datelined Paris brought the issue […]
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News, Etc. Demolition of the historic Gypsy neighborhood, Sulukule, plans to build an underground metro line across the Golden Horn, a hotel construction over the ruins of the Grand Palace of the Byzantine Empire and other similar projects that impair Istanbul’s historical and cultural heritage might cause UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization) […]