Solid inn based on the recorded dividers of Istanbul draws outrage

A five-story solid inn based on Istanbul's 1600-year-old city dividers and a recorded wellspring attracts outrage of the inhabitants Cankurtaran neighborhood.

Istanbul draws outrage

A few stones of the fortress divider, on which genuine decimations are observable, have been unfastened and the fixture part of the wellspring has been evacuated.

Additionally, a few pieces of the wellspring have been demolished.


Taking note of that the recorded dividers have been harmed after some time, Nevin Taş, the local head, said that the structures used to be wooden, however changed over into strengthened solid when they were moved to another proprietor.

"It's an extremely risky circumstance. The separation between the stones steadily opens up. It truly represents a ton of risk at this moment," Taş said.

Expressing that the recorded relics left from the Ottoman and Byzantine time frame faces the threat of elimination, Mithat Küçük, an occupant in the area, brought up that a few entrances or wellsprings were uncovered during some lodging developments, however "by one way or another they were secured."

Saying that the verifiable structures are vanishing, Küçük approached the specialists to manage the issue and building proprietors to regard history.

In the mean time, development laborers were seen bringing down material from windows with no safety efforts.


When inquired as to why no measures were taken against the plausibility of harming the recorded structure, a development specialist stated: "We attempt as much as we can not to do any harm."

At first worked by Constantine the Great in the fifth century A.D., Istanbul's old dividers took their last structure with changes directed after some time.

The intricate arrangement of twofold dividers and passages spared Constantinople, as the city was known at that point, and the Byzantine Empire with it from attacks.

Numerous bits of the antiquated dividers despite everything stand while different areas have disintegrated.


Recorded as one of the longest chronicled landmarks on the planet, the old city dividers enclose the old city edges and stand out from both neighborhood and remote sightseers.

Be that as it may, regardless of their recorded hugeness, the city's antiquated dividers have gotten infamous for filling in as asylums to destitute, yet some harmed dividers are additionally home to unlawfully developed temporary structures or gardens today.

Triumphal Arch in Anavarza reestablished

Rebuilding work has been finished in the door of the antiquated city of Anavarza, one of the most significant settlements in Anatolia on the UNESCO World Heritage Temporary List.

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The door was worked in memory of the triumph of the Romans against the Persians in the third century and is known as the "Triumphal Arch." With the ongoing rebuilding work, the curve has picked up its previous wonder.

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Addressing state-run Anadolu Agency, Çukurova University prehistoric studies division part and the logical advisor to the unearthings, Fatih Gülşen said that the rebuilding work in the entryway was started in 2018.

He said that the ground investigations of the door were completed in the main stage and, following the fortification of the ground, they began the rebuilding work in the 28-meter-long, 5.40-meter-wide and 14-meter-high entryway.

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"The antiquated city of Anavarza, situated in the southern area of Adana, is one of the spots visited by neighborhood and outside voyagers for its theater, amphitheater, arena and 2,700-meter-long and 34-meter-wide columnar road. The door called 'Triumphal Arch,' worked in memory of the triumph of the Romans in the old city against the Persians in the third century, is one of the most significant components of this spot. The Triumphal Arch, comprising of three curves, eight legs and six segments and situated at the beginning stage of the world's first twofold street, is one of the biggest fantastic city entryways in Anatolia. We reestablished the stones on the entryway, which were beaten up pretty bad and presented threat. We supplanted the messed up stones with the new ones," he said.

Gülşen noticed that numerous individuals went to the area to see the "Triumphal Arch," which presently has an excellent appearance that suits the old city.


Expressing that after the "Triumphal Arch," exhuming and reclamation works will be finished of the columnar road, Gülşen said that the works will begin to resuscitate the 200-meter some portion of the columnar road in any case.

Focusing on that the guests will go through the entryway and visit the columnar road, Gülşen said visitors will make an excursion to history.

He said that unearthings will proceed with this season so as to uncover the amphitheater, which was the area of warrior battles in the antiquated city of Anavarza, otherwise called "strong city" and has the hints of Hellenistic, Roman, Eastern Roman, Sasanian and Ottoman periods. He included that the works are likewise proceeding to put the Anavarza Ancient City on the perpetual world legacy rundown of UNESCO.

China orders 200 million masks from Turkey

China has placed in orders for an aggregate of 200 million defensive face covers from Turkish medicinal firms in the course of recent days, as the nation wrestles an episode of the novel coronavirus.

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Addressing state-run Anadolu Agency, Fatih Arpacı, a partner in a medicinal firm situated in Aegean Izmir territory, said as an "astounding" turnout of occasions, Chinese firms requested a sum of 200 million face covers in one go.

"It is astonishing to us as China is one of the greatest face cover makers on the planet. Turkey creates an aggregate of 150 million face veils in a single year. Be that as it may, they needed 200 million face covers," he said.

"Requests continue coming from China, yet in addition from different nations, for example, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Germany. We work 24 hours per day to fulfill this need. We likewise chip away at Sundays." Arpacı said.

As a respiratory disease, the infection can be transmitted through the air, with a defensive veil covering the mouth and nose being a well known insurance against contamination.

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With cover stocks diminishing in China, request in the nation for the face-gear has soar since the infection ejected before the end of last year.

One of the nations Beijing has gone to satisfy this need was Turkey, where makers have since supported action.


Arpacı said his organization alone would make an underlying shipment of 250,000 covers to China, including that the mentioned numbers were extremely high, thinking about the association's ability.

China is one of the world's greatest defensive restorative cover makers, however has recently been unable to fulfill local need.

The epic coronavirus, which started in Wuhan city in focal China, is said to have been transmitted to people from creatures, especially bats.

The loss of life in China from the novel coronavirus flare-up has move to 213, the National Health Commission said Friday.

Exactly 9,692 affirmed instances of pneumonia brought about by the coronavirus, otherwise called 2019-nCoV, have been accounted for in China.

The infection has raised alerts all around, with cases announced across Asia, Europe, the U.S. what's more, Canada.

Voyagers from China are being screened for the infection at air terminals around the world. A few carriers have suspended flights to Wuhan and different pieces of China.

At a crisis meeting Thursday, the World Health Organization proclaimed the episode a global crisis.

Inhabitants at high hazard because of low leases in run-down Istanbul neighborhood

Several structures at high hazard that have been emptied as a result of an arranged urban change venture in Istanbul's Fikirtepe neighborhood are being leased by outsiders and Turkish residents because of low costs.

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Turkey, which straddles seismic separation points and is inclined to quakes, has some high-chance structures which despite everything hope to profit by urban change ventures.

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In the city Istanbul's destitution stricken Fikirtepe structures, with no seismic tremor obstruction and have a high danger of crumbling, are being utilized by outsiders - who came to Turkey for work purposes - and devastated inhabitants of the city.

The explanation behind their basic living arrangement at unsafe structures come from the living arrangements' low rental costs.

"The property holder left, and we needed to settle when we discovered that it was unfilled," he said.

Another occupant, Ahmet Ulucak, said that he has been living with the dread of death "each and every day."

Ulucak said that he leased a condo in his structure yet "has on his inner voice" when gathering the lease.

"Be that as it may, my inhabitant is urgent also. What other place will he locate a home for [500 Turkish Liras (about $84)]? He would not have remained right now in the event that he had another decision," Ulucak said.

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As per data assembled from nearby realtors, the rents of these condos vary from 400 liras to 800 liras. (about $67 to $134). Be that as it may, in recently manufactured condos, rents can go up to 4,500 liras (around $754).

Satılmış and Güler Aktaş, a couple living in Fikirtepe, said that they cleared their home, which was vigorously harmed in light of new developments, yet moved to another loft on a similar road.

"We can't go to a more secure spot in view of financial conditions. We said 'yes' to [urban] change with dreams of solid houses however have been turned untied," they included.

Despite the fact that individuals who lease old structures are significantly Uzbek, Afghan and Turkmen, Turkish residents remain in these inhabitants also.

A few outsiders in the area even rent the condo and afterward lease the rooms to others, in an offer to win some cash.

As indicated by Engin Akgüzel, the representative for Leke Fikirtepe Platform, exactly 60,000 individuals in the area have been defrauded because of an unenlightened, yet guaranteed, urban change venture, just as contractual workers who failed.

"A lion's share of Fikirtepe inhabitants needed to leave their homes because of dangers. Individuals who made some hard memories paying rent either came back to their old homes or leased their old lofts," Akgüzel said.

Approximately 25,000 individuals as of now live in "dread" in structures at high danger of falling, he included.

"The states of the homes are grievous; blasted sections, disintegrated dividers… Let alone the normal ground-breaking Istanbul tremor, the circumstance of these individuals - who are scared of homes falling in any event, when vehicles go through the road, in the [city's] focus is tragic," he pushed.