Istanbul city walking tour- WALKING IN AKSARAY ISTANBUL IN 4K-walk in 4k turkey
4k turkey-ISTANBUL WALKING TRAVEL 🇹🇷 WALKING IN AKSARAY ISTANBUL IN 4K-walk in 4k turkey
"Aksaray, Aksaray, Aksaray," the minibus drivers used to bellow in their baritone Anatolian accents.
The street-level boarding calls — phased out long ago — are still, in a way, being heard by people outside of Turkey, too.
Ever a hub, Istanbul's Aksaray neighbourhood is a magnet for newcomers looking for quick work and what used to be cheap housing.
The square here and its large fountain right outside the metro station are now a critical connection point in what is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar human smuggling industry here, fuelled by the desperation of refugees — mainly from Syria.
Woven in with the locals rushing to where they need to go are parents and children sitting with suitcases on benches.
Men mill about the fountain and the metro entrance. Others huddle in groups on the patches of grass in the park.
In some ways, it is like a scene out of The Wire. But instead of Baltimore junkies and drug dealers, it's refugees and smugglers from several different countries, part of an intricate and highly-skilled network working behind the scenes to forge the documents people need to start fresh.
Aksaray (literally "White Palace" in Turkish) is a neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey. Aksaray is a part of the district of Fatih. It is so named because it was founded by migrants from Aksaray in central Turkey, deported there in the 15th century by Mehmet II to repopulate the city after the its conquest. It also borders the neighborhood of Eminönü around the Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque. Aksaray has a modern appearance, with many hotels and shops, mostly active in trade with Russia and Romania.
In Aksaray there is a station of the M1 line on the Istanbul LRT, which goes from Yenikapı to the Atatürk International Airport in Yeşilköy. The area is also served by the T1 tram line, with stops at Yusufpasha and Aksaray. Transport maps show a connection between the Yusufpasha tram stop and the metro station Aksaray, but this involves an above-ground walk of about 350m down side streets, or an even longer walk between the tram stop called Aksaray and the metro stataion called Aksaray
Aksaray is also known as a hub for the illegal sex trafficking of young women from Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Some reports in the Turkish media have claimed that the neighborhood is especially prone to prostitution because it is a "no man's land" between two adjoining police jurisdictions, Fatih and Eminonu.
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