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In the summer of 2007, a Roma band strikes up a season of protest concerts in opposition to the planned demolition of Sulukule.
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Sulukule Platform activists hold a last press conference to a background of demolition, demanding a halt to the destruction of properties.
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Stencils, graffiti and chipped plaster cover the surface of a ramshackle wall in Sulukule.
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Three Roma ladies pose outside their houses a few days before abandoning them forever.
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A boy carries a little girl for on one their last journeys through their old neighbourhood.
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A woman pokes her head out of a window of the single remaining house in a rubble-strewn street
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A young child smiles against a backdrop of ruins.
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The fresh ruins of a house stand alongside decidedly more antique remains of the Byzantine walls surrounding the city formerly known as Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium.
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A little boy creates his own private demolition as he frantically batters a brick wall.
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Two dogs nestle in a sofa left behind by families fleeing the bulldozers.