\u0130stanbul\u2019un baz\u0131 semtleri vard\u0131r; aralar\u0131nda kilometre de\u011fil, \u00e7a\u011f fark\u0131 vard\u0131r.
\nD\u00fcn bunu yeniden hissettim. A\u015fa\u011f\u0131s\u0131 Balat, yukar\u0131s\u0131 \u00c7ar\u015famba\u2026 Arada sadece 600 metre mesafe var ama insan bazen o yolu y\u00fcr\u00fcrken 600 y\u0131ll\u0131k bir zaman t\u00fcnelinden ge\u00e7iyormu\u015f gibi hissediyor.<\/p>\n
D\u00fcn e\u015fimle birlikte \u00f6nce Balat\u2019taki me\u015fhur Ermeni kilisesine gittik. Paskalya\u2019n\u0131n k\u0131rk\u0131nc\u0131 g\u00fcn\u00fcyd\u00fc. O kilisenin g\u00fcn\u00fc hep farkl\u0131 olur. Y\u0131llard\u0131r anlat\u0131lan hik\u00e2yeler vard\u0131r; g\u00f6rmeyen g\u00f6r\u00fcr, duymayan duyar, y\u00fcr\u00fcmeyen y\u00fcr\u00fcr derler. Kimisi inan\u0131r, kimisi efsane der ama o atmosferin insan\u0131n i\u00e7ine i\u015fleyen ba\u015fka bir taraf\u0131 oldu\u011fu kesin. Sessizlikle kar\u0131\u015f\u0131k mum kokusu, dualar\u0131n yank\u0131s\u0131, insanlar\u0131n g\u00f6zlerindeki umut\u2026 \u0130stanbul\u2019un i\u00e7inde ba\u015fka bir zaman gibi.<\/p>\n
Dua ettik, mum yakt\u0131k, biraz oturduk. Sonra Yuvakimyon K\u0131z Okulu\u2019ndaki sergiye gitmek i\u00e7in y\u00fcr\u00fcmeye ba\u015flad\u0131k. Balat son y\u0131llarda bamba\u015fka bir yere d\u00f6n\u00fc\u015fm\u00fc\u015f. Tarihi olmayan \u201ctarihi b\u00f6rek\u00e7iler\u201d, her k\u00f6\u015fe ba\u015f\u0131nda g\u00f6zlemeciler, yapay nostalji satan d\u00fckk\u00e2nlar\u2026 Sanki baz\u0131 yerler semtin ruhunu de\u011fil, foto\u011fraf\u0131n\u0131 sat\u0131yor art\u0131k. Her yer hamur i\u015fi, her yer dekor. Ger\u00e7ek \u0130stanbul bazen tabelalar\u0131n aras\u0131nda kayboluyor.<\/p>\n
Derken y\u00f6n\u00fcm\u00fcz\u00fc \u00c7ar\u015famba\u2019ya \u00e7evirdik. Bir anda ba\u015fka bir memlekete ge\u00e7mi\u015f gibi olduk. Sokaklar\u0131n dili de\u011fi\u015fti, insanlar\u0131n y\u00fcr\u00fcy\u00fc\u015f\u00fc de\u011fi\u015fti, vitrinler de\u011fi\u015fti, hayat\u0131n ritmi de\u011fi\u015fti. Ayn\u0131 il\u00e7ede, ayn\u0131 birka\u00e7 sokakta bu kadar farkl\u0131 iki d\u00fcnyan\u0131n yan yana durabilmesi ger\u00e7ekten \u0130stanbul\u2019a \u00f6zg\u00fc bir durum.<\/p>\n
Ama i\u015fin en \u00f6nemli taraf\u0131 \u015fu: Hepsi bizim insan\u0131m\u0131z. Hepsi bu memleketin par\u00e7as\u0131. Balat\u2019taki ya\u015fl\u0131 Ermeni teyze de bizim, \u00c7ar\u015famba\u2019daki sakall\u0131 esnaf da bizim. Mesele birbirine benzemek de\u011fil; ayn\u0131 \u015fehirde birbirinin varl\u0131\u011f\u0131na sayg\u0131 duyabilmek.<\/p>\n
\u0130stanbul\u2019u ayakta tutan \u015fey tam da bu asl\u0131nda. Tek tip olmak de\u011fil, farkl\u0131l\u0131klarla birlikte ya\u015fayabilmek. \u00c7\u00fcnk\u00fc bu \u015fehir bir ebru gibi\u2026 Renkler birbirine benzemez ama hepsi ayn\u0131 suyun i\u00e7inde anlam kazan\u0131r.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Below is Balat, above is \u00c7ar\u015famba... There is only a distance of 600 meters between them, but sometimes when you walk that road, you feel like you are passing through a 600-year time tunnel.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":286023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-286022","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\/286022","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=286022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286024,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286022\/revisions\/286024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}