At the corner of Gaziler Caddesi, the kebab seller Emre is listing how to ask for a bottle of water in Turkish, Arabic and Kurdish. Minimal knowledge of these three languages is a sort of passport to ...

IZMIR, Turkey — Basmane Square, located opposite the central railway station here, is the unofficial capital for migrants and those who profit from their plight. So far this year half a million people ...

This talk examines how displaced Syrian refugees in İzmir’s Basmane district actively shape their surroundings through everyday practices. Focusing on the spatio-material processes of placemaking, it ...

Basmane is no longer a pit-stop for Syrian refugees: it's become a home Izmir is Turkey’s third-largest city and plays host to a significant number of the estimated 2.7m Syrian refugees now living in ...