already a thousand years are they living there...the turkish authorities now want to get rid of them and are destroying their houses and neighbourhood....the world seems to accept it almost without resisting...or not!!?? (english subtitles) SOKAK [look for his other files on myspace!!!] The Sulukule district has been the home of the Rroms since the Byzantine period and it became the first sedentary Rrom settlement in the world in the 15th Century. The entire district of Sulukule is an extraordinary monument. The Istanbul municipality has now taken the decision to cancel out all the traces of the settlement, clearing the area of the 3000 Rroms who live there, commencing, in February 2008, the “project for urban renewal”, which foresees the demolition of historical buildings and the construction of a modern district. Saving Sulukule and the oldest Rrom community in the world means saving a piece of the history of our world and stopping a serious case of oppression towards the Turkish Rroms.
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