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One is that -- it's called gecekondu in Turkish, which means built overnight, and if you build your house overnight in Turkey, you can't be evicted without due process of law, if they don't catch you during the night.
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One is that -- it's called gecekondu in Turkish, which means built overnight, and if you build your house overnight in Turkey, you can't be evicted without due process of law, if they don't catch you during the night.
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One is that -- it's called gecekondu in Turkish, which means built overnight, and if you build your house overnight in Turkey, you can't be evicted without due process of law, if they don't catch you during the night.
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Millions of people flooded from the countryside, cramming into cheap, illegal housing called "gecekondu," which means "built overnight" in Turkish.
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We will see the gecekondu, a few days later, from our departing plane.
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Due to a loophole in Turkish law, these gecekondu cannot be easily torn down.
Shaky beams 2006
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Villages are emptying out as concentric rings of gecekondu developments grow around Turkish cities.
The Coming Anarchy 1994
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Villages are emptying out as concentric rings of gecekondu developments grow around Turkish cities.
The Coming Anarchy 1994
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The hills used to be sprinkled with small hamlets, consisting of gecekondu, the unplanned shacks that sprang up with each new wave of migrants.
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Long ago, the authors of a study of global housing issues explained that 'perhaps half of Ankara's 1.5 millions live this way, in gecekondu, acknowledging the fact that, to avoid instant legal destruction, any temporary dwelling has to be erected in a single night between dusk and dawn.'
openDemocracy openDemocracy 2010
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