Migration started from the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia to the districts of Fener and Balat in 1985, which is about the same time that work was done to clean the Haliç inlet. For the people who came through forced migration, not only did they not have a village or hometown to return to but they also didn’t have a job waiting for them. The reason people choose this place was indeed its closeness to working areas downtown and its cheap rent. The last migration wave that occurred in that period formed the district’s present social and economic structure.
After he was sacked from TRT following the Gezi protests, Aydoğan worked for Ulusal Kanal for a while. When he was not paid for nine months, he quit and found a job at Cihan News Agency. He once again became unemployed after the agency was closed due to the first Statutory Decree after July 15th.