in istanbul a protest triggered after a decision to uproot six cents trees in a public park with the plan of real estate developers to create a concrete commercial zone and build a replica of military barracks from the ottoman empire to house a cultural centre near taksim square has led after violent repression to the calling into question of the regime throughout the country protesting against urbanization policies construction of an airport which could become the largest in the world in terms of annual number of passengers a third bridge over the bosphorus the giant mosque of camlica in a big sprawling city where neighborhoods lack everything like many cities and villages in the east of the country