The urban transformation system, which succeeded in Sulukule and Tokludede by displacing people, failed in the Fener-Balat-Ayvansaray Renewal Project. And now, the gentrification plans that couldn’t be achieved through demolition have been attempted through the market mechanism, which is under the control of the investors. What urban transformation failed to do is being done by capital. Gentrification is happening “some way or another”.
Most of those who were fired are still unemployed. Many of them are looking for jobs in different areas. I personally found a job in the news site Özgürüz. But when you have so many unemployed friends, you don’t feel like doing journalism. I can’t say that we are doing our job as willingly as before. But in the end, they closed the door on us, but we entered from the chimney. There are numerous friends who could not enter from the chimney.”