Today was the day of meetings. We meet with everyone, professors, lawyers, a chief (of fatih municipality), ngos, and after all that we have to meet with ourselves. About 10hours of meetings today. Now we must organize ourselves enough to make sense of it all. Our project, as michael states, "takes place in a complex, controversial, and contested situation". We don't know who is telling the truth. The answers all contradict one another. It's going to be difficult to propose something, but I am definitely sure we can come up with something better than the municipality's masterplan. Although they claim their main objective is to conserve cultural heritage, should their aim not be to provide a place that would allow the most number of romani to stay? Why are they not focusing on ways in which they may sustain, but also develop their cultural heritage? We are questioning how much their heritage is valued since it seems that this masterplan is pushing most of them out of the area they have resided in for centuries...-meghna
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