{"id":283043,"date":"2026-02-26T04:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=283043"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:08:53","slug":"kurtulus-tatavla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/kurtulus-tatavla\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurtulus (Tatavla)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kurtulu\u015f of my childhood... aka Tatavla...<\/p>\n

Jews, Greeks, Armenians, Armenians and Turks together; people who grew up on the same sidewalk, bought bread from the same bakery, fought in the same neighborhood game and made up in the evening...<\/p>\n

\"\" \u00a0\u00a0We were not a minority there, we were the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

I saw it again when Mamma died.
\nThe church was packed.
\nNot only Christians; the neighboring aunts with their headscarves, the uncle at the grocery store, Hasan Abi from the apartment across the street...
\nThe churchyard was not enough, we overflowed into the streets.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Because there religion did not come before identity.
\nThere the pain was common.<\/p>\n

That was the best thing about Tatavla:
\nEveryone would cry at the funeral, everyone would go to each other on Eid.<\/p>\n

The child at the door at Christmas was the same as the child in line for pita bread during Ramadan.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

We used to embrace each other's feasts, mourning and weddings.
\nThis was the neighborhood:
\nYou have the key to the next door neighbor, children are considered the children of all the houses.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Looking back today, I realize this:
\nIt was not our population that made us strong, but our culture of living together.<\/p>\n

Tatavla was not just a neighborhood.
\nIt was a state of mind.
\nIt was the name of people who gave each other a shoulder.<\/p>\n

And no matter what...
\nNo one can erase that spirit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tatavla was not just a neighborhood. It was a state of mind. It was the name of people who gave each other a shoulder.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":283048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-283043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yazarlar","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283049,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283043\/revisions\/283049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}