Turkey's Roma Demand Homes Back
CorrectionWe said, "Ever since [the Roma] began their odyssey from the Indian subcontinent two-and-a-half millennia ago, theyve been feared and demonized." In fact, the Roma left India in the 11th century, about one millennium ago.
Romani musicians and a dancer celebrate World Roma Day in the threatened Roma neighborhood of Sulukule in Istanbul.
Romani musicians and a dancer celebrate World Roma Day in the threatened Roma neighborhood of Sulukule in Istanbul.
In Istanbul, housing costs are high. People looked on with some anticipation as the municipality set out to rehabilitate a dangerous, rundown neighborhood inside the city's walls. But this urban renewal project is running into opposition from the neighborhood's residents, many of them Roma, the long-despised and disenfranchised minority also known as gypsies.
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