Istanbul Streets: I Hear Music | Witness
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2016
- Istanbul's street vendors chant their last songs amid the city's gentrification.
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One of the best documentaries I've ever watched. I remember when I was in sub-urban Cairo. It sounds the same Yes, it sounds like a music to me. It wakes me up in the morning. I love this documentary. Thank you Al Jazeera!
My heart breaks for these hard-working vendors. What the government/municipal is doing to these people is an injustice. They're just trying to survive and make a living. God bless you all! -- Love from Los Angeles
I remember in my childhood days the morning's had been started to listen the sounds of Vendors... I miss those days... We don't hear them anymore..!!
I wish them all the best.............Heart broken
Wonderful documentary from Aljazeera, they make the best documentaries & are the best news station in the world. It us so sad to see the blind destruction of a beautiful city. The high rises are so ugly, Istanbul is about the worst that I have seen, they buildings are so grouped together & highly dense. The municipalities will wake up when it us to late. I now live in Ireland & the economic boom in the early 2000 destroyed beautiful scenic areas of the countryside because local municipalities allowed the building of too many houses ( planning regulations were ignored, if you had the money & paid the right people you could build anywhere). I love Istanbul please hold on to your wonderful totally unique culture & history. Turkey is a great nation, may God Bless it & all its peoples.
If the culture tradition gone, the nation identity will be gone too or unknown to the worlds. Amazing documentary Al Jazeera!👌👍
it's so sad to see poor people who sell pastries and other stuff in the street and the government are so intent to chase them away and I was happy to see the step forward this musical team took to help them!
They could create special zones/ bazaars for vendors instead of leaving no option for small business. Small vendors are key to the economy.
The vendor calling is same in our country Vietnam. However, our govt does not need to ban calling, technical stuff like a USB and a speaker replace calling gradually. Whenever I hear Turkish vendor calling, it reminds me of my childhood in Hanoi. "Reply 1980s memory". Touchful documentary. Thanks.
it reminds me of the Tunisan '' médina alarbi" ....Le Bon vieux temps!!
sad to See How they destroy Istanbul slowly slowly. there will be No charm anymore from that Beautyfull City. wish the Street vendors good luck.
What a heartbreaking documentary, This is one of the major things I have been looking forward to experience whenever I get to visit but sadly not anymore. It is sad how peoples means of livelihood might be on the edge and the government wouldn't care. Sad
Removing people from their homes, neighborhoods, jobs and traditions. How proud you must be. This is huge injustice!
Love Turkey! from Pakistan
A typical Turk spends his/hers weeks working just to have enough money to feed his/hers family. A handful of us are trying to stop these "developments" which will only benefit construction companies and politicians. My grandfather is 88 years old and when i ask him about the times he grew up, he tells me about the boats, buildings, theaters, parks, taverns, bohem neighborhoods which are long lost. Istanbul has lost a lot of her charm and, to be honest, future isn't bright. If you see a skyscraper next to Hagia Sophia in 10 years don't be shocked.
No! Please don’t tear down the old buildings I love it just the way it is so quaint and lovely, it makes you feel like you’re in a unique historical place. They can’t tear down these old buildings please on my God!
In the name of modernization we have robbed the pure innocence of life. The documentary brought tears to my eyes and revived my childhood memories growing as a kid in in Mumbai . I ws 5 year old and remember vendors shouting and selling daily life items and delicacies. I would run down with pennies to buy candies and stuff or my grandma would simply lower a basket from our three storied old building and buy things .it was so fun.The vendors would always have their time and day fixed to sell.
That was life ...free birds in the sky....but ,sadly today we are caged with clipped wings and muzzles on our mouth...silenced lambs...alienated humans packed in solitude of tech world...Happiness lies in small things,,not found in materialistic world but in our small neighborhoods and amongst the people we grow up with and share those little moments...that is where love blooms....
Great talented peoples in Istanbul and daily lives. I love Turkey
wish i could help the mussel and pastry man
Great!
as a child we used to have people come past selling their goods. i loved it. you just dont see this anymore. there is no harm in it. leave this tradition alone
that's sad! As a visitor, that's just what I was looking for when thinking of the places I would like to see. That is a big part of the culture of the place, and it's wealth. That is the warm sound of Humanity. Shame on you political parties.
government has to rebuild those buildings or renovate them because there will be no building left in that area if an earthquake, which will be no less then 7.0, occurs.
very good report !!But other important reason is also that Istanbul is earthquake area.The dilapitaded buildings never to stand an earthquake. Otherwise old culture is ending. Realy sad.Mega citys, typical. Die musical idea is great and thx again for this reportage.Like it.
My love for Turkey long live Turkey
They tried this in my town and we fought them down. It was a hard battle and we won....so far.
yine harika bir aljazeera videosu 💕
You are truly pretty / you look like my first girl friend. Peace/ love & Gesundheit from Germany. Hope you are doing well and everything is ok.
I am currently reading Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul where he highlights the huzun or melancholy experienced by the Istanbullus (residents of Istanbul) as it relates the loss of the Ottoman empire and recent setback.
I grew up in the Indian city of Bengaluru. In 1950s we heard the music of hawkers selling tender mangos, palm fruit, and vegetables. We had the music from the guy who set up a make-shift furnace and would coat the vessels with alloy to prevent corrosion. Yet another guy sang offering to sharpen the knives. Yes. We even had one who offered to dive into the well to retrieve buckets and metal pots we had lost to the deep waters! We moved to the suburbs. Bengaluru is now a global metropolis where I feel like a stranger.
This documentary, I dare say, captured the melancholy with all the intensity I could wish for. It was very poetic and sad. Thanks for making it.
So as your country becomes rich, it's illegal to be poor but the government does not give alternatives.
goverment is saving their life's
At least your losing the city to your own people. In Europe the old street vendors have all but gone and have been replaced with foreigners from every corner of the globe.
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi You got a point there
I love turkey
I'm in tears.... such hard working every day normal people.... their professions have existed for AGES and in a moment it is banned and they are banished??: Municipality Police are the reason for the decline of your society, not them. You create a society that doesn't appreciate community, they now isolate themselves from each other and start to fear one another as well.... reap what you sow!
This documentary is amazing. Thanks. Also thanks to the people who gave these vendors a little joy, that's real art. I'm really sad they think building homogenous apartments and shouting the music of the city is the thing to do. Just stupid government people with greed on their veins and no connection with the real needs of the real people ☹️
The authorities are ruining the soul of Istanbul. I was brought up there 60 years ago and it was the most beautiful city in the world. Seeing this modernisation is breaking my heart.
Amazing voices and people. Sad to see the neighborhood and culture go
Beautiful ❤🌍🌈🚀😆😆😆
Come to Bangladesh. It would Amazing
Now, this way ,Cool.
my dream country😍😍
pretty much the same in India
Real as the world 🌍 turn
awesome documentary sellers vendors voice may be disturbing some one but old traditional voice losing joy of pleasure to see the vendors voice curtain sales lady yasmin old man pastry sales i am coming going back end of the documentary is the broken vase of our society honestly earning person with hard work hats of you all guy , gone with wind by by
very beautiful documentation. it is a shame some people do not respect their traditions n their people in the name of selfishness. very sad. these people should have received decent compensations for being displaced in such a way
What stupidness in Istanbul actually is more louder the call of pray than those sellers , anyone who is been there can comfirm it.
Istanbul is unique in so many things, they should stay like that.why imitate other European cultures .The city will loss it's essence.. this is sad.
How are they now ? I wish they can find another way .... I feel so sad at the ending of story😢
If Turkey doesn't want westerners cultural take over then government should encourage those types of vendors. Create a cultural avenue of vendors an out side bazaar for locals.
This is so common in India, fun at the same time, won’t be bored. With hectic lifestyle and stress families are too busy, the vendors will pay a visit in the neighbourhood. and cheer some people. Won’t get this in Australia and depression is higher here.
BEN GELDIM, GIDIYORUM
How to kill A Nations charm.
Whatever folk style songs exist let it exist.let the people live on their own way.
"...don't it always seem to go,
that you don't know what you've got till it's gone...
they paved Paradise and put up a parking lot..."
(Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi" 1970)
the soulless bureaucrat, having deemed something unworthy, destroys it,
and moves on to destroy something else...all they know how to do,
is tear down, and leave a wasteland behind them...
It's so easy for street vendors in India. Bribe traffic police constantly and do business on public property. Many times higher authorities confiscate, selling items of vendors but after accepting bribe, return them their holdings even less than a mile ahead.
never even imagined in my dreams that even Istanbul will have poor localities . itz Changing my concept for rich turkey. their drama Industry should have to look on these poor people too . they r part of Turkey too .
Well that stinks! I hate seeing gentrification projects because they take life away from the real people of the area and the personality of an area, to bring in money and look-alike buildings. I always thought of Istanbul as a Turkish Paris, where you would hear all those sounds of the street and sit at a cafe for hours, drinking tea, coffee or soda and enjoy the locals. So sad to see this happen. I would love to see an update show to see how the vendors are doing now.
🙂😌😘😒😞😔😟😕🙁☹️😣😖😫😩😱😨😰😩😤😠😡😯😦😵😳😱😨😢😥😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 this is the emotion I went through watching this documentary it's very sad how that mayor don't think of anyone but his pocket and how to fill his safe faster doesn't those police have a heart taking their livelihood my heart drop while watching them throw the vendors livelihood in their truck as if it's nothing!!!😩😤😠😡 it made me so angry though the part that melted my heart ❤️ was when they did the concert and the smiles on their faces while they practice it ☺️😊😌😘 but at the end it just made me mad and sad 😭 at the same time my Heart ❤️ was 💔broken when as I watched the old man that was selling his bread and sandwiches as he says his farewell I was really sad to see his back and shoulder down as he says his last farewell 😭😭😭😭
Can't resist sharing what a newspaper columnist in Istanbul wrote in 1949. Being scared of criticizing the rich and the powerful, his scorn was reserved for the weak and the poor. How little the world has changed after 70 years:
"First the rent and taxes went up, and then, thanks to the immigrants, the city was flooded with razor sellers, simit sellers, stuffed mussel sellers, tissue sellers, slipper sellers, knife and fork sellers, sundries sellers, toys sellers, water sellers and soft drink sellers, and as if that weren’t enough, pudding sellers, sweet sellers and doner sellers have now invaded our ferries."
(From Ohran Pamuk in Istanbul, Memories and the City)
It is not Feta cheese , because Feta cheese is Greek , it is Turkish White Cheese and Turkish White Cheese is older than Feta and and Feta is an imitation of Turkish White Cheese.
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40:20 I wonder if this old man is around. His food sounds really good. He needs to pass on the business to carry out those recipes of his. I hope he's still around andhis back to selling his food again.
" Η Ρωμανία κι αν ’πέρασεν
ανθεί και φέρει κι άλλο."
Eminönu and Karaköy completely lost their charm when the street vendors were banned ☹️
Prime Minister has to live in a,castle that has 1000 rooms, but as a culture carrier you can't shout your culture because Prime Minister doesn't like noise!!! Babies, kids dying of the hunger, lack of medicine etc but Government doesn't see those still in Turkey! What a shame...
İstanbul better city of the world
this is the beauty of istanbul being wiped out the culture is the backbone of any country state or city it is important to balance culture
and modernization you cannot wipe out the poor people in a city like this its unfair you r wiping out your own culture n beauty of istanbul
The ending is so sad. I love how the vendors call out their products for sale, it’s a mistake to ban it. And the new buildings look like the communist buildings from Eastern Europe, no character at all.
I think this part of Istanbul (called Sulukule) is inhabited mostly by the Roma community of Istanbul. It needs organizing but the challenge is how to do it while keeping the locals happy? The mission impossible!
The local governments must find jobs for street vendors.
Being a street vendor is a job.
Why would they ever want to join the E.U.? Such a booming economy, making room for returning disapora and a burgeoning new middle class. Too bad they destroy such thriving cultural neighborhoods. Enlightened government would preserve this tradition, wonderful to see 3 people in a city of millions caring
evil zabita
they are gypsy people from Turkey
Turkey is going down soon. its Turkey'd turn now.. its sad..
Control your Government.
omg i'd have been really annoyed by all those shouting.
im turkish and i sometimes have no idea what they are shouting about, it is so incomprehensible that i sometimes feel like they are shouting my own name or they are talking in an other language or just gibberish
The great city of Constantine reduced to this rubbish
are you dumb? more than 15 million tourists come to that rubbish every year. istanbul is the 10th most touristic city in the world. the places you see is just small part of it.
or maybe you are just a dumb anti-turk...
I don't like too much unnecessary humanity. I watched this video and there are more uncultured people. I hope someday they will be erase of our streets with ramadan drummers.
They should not touch the food with bare hands without gloves. But then there is no guarantee as to how it was produced or cooked. Best is not to buy them on the street.