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Viewed as "the wrong message" by the ruling regime of Ilham Aliyev, Islam has been shunned in favor of opulence and materialism for the elite and the imam of the Icherishahar Djuma Masjid was replaced after dalliances with the opposition in 2005, the time of the last major civil disturbances, and Iranian-style clericalism; the wider effect in Azeri society of the corruption that resulted from the second oil boom of the 1990s has left the society of the elite with great wealth but an absence of moral leadership, yet few have turned to Islam for answers. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Young girls dress themselves appropriately for prayer upon entering the Shi'a Icherishahar Djuma Masjid or Innercity Mosque for Friday prayers in the old city on July 2, 2010. Viewed as "the wrong message" by the ruling regime of Ilham Aliyev, Islam has been shunned in favor of opulence and materialism for the elite and the imam of the Icherishahar Djuma Masjid was replaced after dalliances with the opposition in 2005, the time of the last major civil disturbances, and Iranian-style clericalism; the wider effect in Azeri society of the corruption that resulted from the second oil boom of the 1990s has left the society of the elite with great wealth but an absence of moral leadership, yet few have turned to Islam for answers. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc01.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The Caspian beach in Sixov in Bibi Heybat section on July 4, 2010. With offshore oil installations and an abundance of trash, the Sixov beach is only frequented by the rural and downtrodden from the Azerbaijani regions beyond Baku who cannot afford the private beaches where the elite go to isolate themselves. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The Caspian beach in Sixov in Bibi Heybat section on July 4, 2010. With offshore oil installations and an abundance of trash, the Sixov beach is only frequented by the rural and downtrodden from the Azerbaijani regions beyond Baku who cannot afford the private beaches where the elite go to isolate themselves. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc04.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The Balaxani oil fields, one of the earliest oil discoveries in Azerbaijan and the most polluted area on the Absheron peninsula on the outskirts of Baku, with the high rise developments of Baku's booming city center in the distance on July 5, 2010. Several thousand families, many refugees and internally displaced, live in Balaxani. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The Balaxani oil fields, one of the earliest oil discoveries in Azerbaijan and the most polluted area on the Absheron peninsula on the outskirts of Baku, with the high rise developments of Baku's booming city center in the distance on July 5, 2010. Several thousand families, many refugees and internally displaced, live in Balaxani. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc42.jpg BILGEH, AZERBAIJAN. The Bilgeh Estates villas outside Baku, Azerbaijan on the Absheron Peninsula house some of Azerbaijan's few well manicured lawns as seen from the air on July 15, 2010. Azerbaijan's tremendous wealth gap has placed the elite in a stratosphere above the rest of society and left the rest of the country behind in often near feudal conditions; prices at Bilgeh Estates begin at $2,400 for one week during the off season and soar to $5,400 a week in the peak summer months. BILGEH, AZERBAIJAN. The Bilgeh Estates villas outside Baku, Azerbaijan on the Absheron Peninsula house some of Azerbaijan's few well manicured lawns as seen from the air on July 15, 2010. Azerbaijan's tremendous wealth gap has placed the elite in a stratosphere above the rest of society and left the rest of the country behind in often near feudal conditions; prices at Bilgeh Estates begin at $2,400 for one week during the off season and soar to $5,400 a week in the peak summer months. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/az01.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. A saleswoman adjusts the window display at Bulgari on Neftiler Prospekt, or Oil Worker's Boulevard on July 2, 2010. Luxury shopping in downtown Baku is one symptom of the city within the city or the country within the country where the elite, estimated at 50,000, control much of the country's income and profit from oil revenues, leaving a wide gap in the absence of a middle class between them and the rest of the country. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. A saleswoman adjusts the window display at Bulgari on Neftiler Prospekt, or Oil Worker's Boulevard on July 2, 2010. Luxury shopping in downtown Baku is one symptom of the city within the city or the country within the country where the elite, estimated at 50,000, control much of the country's income and profit from oil revenues, leaving a wide gap in the absence of a middle class between them and the rest of the country. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/az24.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The outdoor patio lounge of the Chinar restaurant, a favorite restaurant among the local and expat elite and of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, on July 18, 2010. Chinar is owned by a relative of Aliyev. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. The outdoor patio lounge of the Chinar restaurant, a favorite restaurant among the local and expat elite and of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, on July 18, 2010. Chinar is owned by a relative of Aliyev. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_02.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. After two years of construction, a barge hauls the West Chirag offshore oil platform, operated by BP, out into the Caspian Sea in the Bibi Heybat district on September 12, 2013. The platform will be operational by December 2013 and will see its first returns of crude oil in the spring of 2014. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. After two years of construction, a barge hauls the West Chirag offshore oil platform, operated by BP, out into the Caspian Sea in the Bibi Heybat district on September 12, 2013. The platform will be operational by December 2013 and will see its first returns of crude oil in the spring of 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc05.jpg NAFTALAN, AZERBAIJAN. Quliyev Jeyyub from Tartar, Karabakh in the disputed once Azerbaijani territory now occupied by Armenia, sits in an oil bath at the Sehirli Naftalan Health Center and Hotel on July 19, 2010. Naftalan is famous for its oil bath treatments across the former Soviet Union and several such treatment centers exist in the town; patients are only allowed to bath for 10 minutes before having oil scraped from their bodies by a nurse attendant and showering. NAFTALAN, AZERBAIJAN. Quliyev Jeyyub from Tartar, Karabakh in the disputed once Azerbaijani territory now occupied by Armenia, sits in an oil bath at the Sehirli Naftalan Health Center and Hotel on July 19, 2010. Naftalan is famous for its oil bath treatments across the former Soviet Union and several such treatment centers exist in the town; patients are only allowed to bath for 10 minutes before having oil scraped from their bodies by a nurse attendant and showering. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc43.jpg ZAYAM, AZERBAIJAN. Women during the crying ceremony during the seven day ceremony, part of Azerbaijan's elaborate funeral rituals that include gender segregated commemorations of the deceased three days, seven days and 40 days after their death in Zayam, Shamkir Region, Azerbaijan, approximately four kilometers from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, on January 3, 2012. Compensation funds for land traversed by the BTC pipeline paid to the family of the deceased as a result of disruption stemming from the period of the pipeline's construction totaled under $1,000 and went to keeping the deceased healthy and caring for her daughter who suffers from tuberculosis. ZAYAM, AZERBAIJAN. Women during the crying ceremony during the seven day ceremony, part of Azerbaijan's elaborate funeral rituals that include gender segregated commemorations of the deceased three days, seven days and 40 days after their death in Zayam, Shamkir Region, Azerbaijan, approximately four kilometers from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, on January 3, 2012. Compensation funds for land traversed by the BTC pipeline paid to the family of the deceased as a result of disruption stemming from the period of the pipeline's construction totaled under $1,000 and went to keeping the deceased healthy and caring for her daughter who suffers from tuberculosis. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc44.jpg ZAYAM, AZERBAIJAN. A man takes a lamb carcass from the trunk of a car for butchering before cooking for women mourners during the seven day ceremony, part of Azerbaijan's elaborate funeral rituals that include gender segregated commemorations of the deceased three days, seven days and 40 days after their death in Zayam, Shamkir Region, Azerbaijan, approximately four kilometers from the BTC pipeline, on January 3, 2012. Compensation funds for land traversed by the BTC pipeline paid to the family of the deceased as a result of disruption stemming from the period of the pipeline's construction totaled under $1,000 and went to keeping the deceased healthy and caring for her daughter who suffers from tuberculosis. ZAYAM, AZERBAIJAN. A man takes a lamb carcass from the trunk of a car for butchering before cooking for women mourners during the seven day ceremony, part of Azerbaijan's elaborate funeral rituals that include gender segregated commemorations of the deceased three days, seven days and 40 days after their death in Zayam, Shamkir Region, Azerbaijan, approximately four kilometers from the BTC pipeline, on January 3, 2012. Compensation funds for land traversed by the BTC pipeline paid to the family of the deceased as a result of disruption stemming from the period of the pipeline's construction totaled under $1,000 and went to keeping the deceased healthy and caring for her daughter who suffers from tuberculosis. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc09.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Wedding guests at the home of Inji Mamedova, the bride, as part of the ceremony to pick her up before marrying Fuad Gasimov, an engineer in the Gas Export Department of the Sangachal Terminal where offshore Azeri oil and gas are pumped into the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tblisi-Sepsa pipelines, on July 9, 2010. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Wedding guests at the home of Inji Mamedova, the bride, as part of the ceremony to pick her up before marrying Fuad Gasimov, an engineer in the Gas Export Department of the Sangachal Terminal where offshore Azeri oil and gas are pumped into the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tblisi-Sepsa pipelines, on July 9, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc08.jpg BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Fuad Gasimov, an engineer in the Gas Export Department of the Sangachal Terminal where offshore Azeri oil and gas are pumped into the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tblisi-Sepsa pipelines, and his wife Inji Mamedova just after signing their marriage contract at a wedding palace on July 9, 2010. BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Fuad Gasimov, an engineer in the Gas Export Department of the Sangachal Terminal where offshore Azeri oil and gas are pumped into the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tblisi-Sepsa pipelines, and his wife Inji Mamedova just after signing their marriage contract at a wedding palace on July 9, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc45.jpg YADILI, AZERBAIJAN. Maharram Aliyev, 35, pats his son, Emin Aliyev, 3, on the head while he sleeps after returning from his shift as a security guard along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline route in the family's one-room winter home in Yadili, Yevlax Region, Azerbaijan on January 4, 2012. Aliyev said he earns three to four times the average salary in his village; Aliyev and his father also received compensation funds combined totaling under $3,000 for the disruption to their lands caused by the construction of the BTC pipeline. YADILI, AZERBAIJAN. Maharram Aliyev, 35, pats his son, Emin Aliyev, 3, on the head while he sleeps after returning from his shift as a security guard along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline route in the family's one-room winter home in Yadili, Yevlax Region, Azerbaijan on January 4, 2012. Aliyev said he earns three to four times the average salary in his village; Aliyev and his father also received compensation funds combined totaling under $3,000 for the disruption to their lands caused by the construction of the BTC pipeline. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc46.jpg ALPOUT, AZERBAIJAN. Hagane Gasimova, 47, chops wood in her backyard in Alpout, Ucar Region, Azerbaijan on March 3, 2012. Located along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Alpout no longer has gas despite the fact that it did until about five years ago and villagers are forced to resort to cutting down trees for heat and cooking; the average monthly salary in Alpout is equivalent to only a few hundred dollars and most live off their land through subsistence farming. ALPOUT, AZERBAIJAN. Hagane Gasimova, 47, chops wood in her backyard in Alpout, Ucar Region, Azerbaijan on March 3, 2012. Located along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Alpout no longer has gas despite the fact that it did until about five years ago and villagers are forced to resort to cutting down trees for heat and cooking; the average monthly salary in Alpout is equivalent to only a few hundred dollars and most live off their land through subsistence farming. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc47.jpg DGVARI, GEORGIA. Zhenia Gogoladze, 68, outside her house which has been partially destroyed by cracks appearing after a 2007 earthquake in Dgvari, Samstkhe-Javakheti region, Georgia, one village over from Tadzrisi from where the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline crosses through the Caucuses mountains, on January 22, 2012. Due to soft soil, many homes in Dgvari have cracked due to landslides and earthquakes and experts have asserted that the pipeline construction, which included controlled blasts, in the mountain villages near the city of Borjomi may have helped accelerate the pace of seismic activity in the region, although locals believe the pipeline construction are unconnected to recent earthquakes and landslides. DGVARI, GEORGIA. Zhenia Gogoladze, 68, outside her house which has been partially destroyed by cracks appearing after a 2007 earthquake in Dgvari, Samstkhe-Javakheti region, Georgia, one village over from Tadzrisi from where the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline crosses through the Caucuses mountains, on January 22, 2012. Due to soft soil, many homes in Dgvari have cracked due to landslides and earthquakes and experts have asserted that the pipeline construction, which included controlled blasts, in the mountain villages near the city of Borjomi may have helped accelerate the pace of seismic activity in the region, although locals believe the pipeline construction are unconnected to recent earthquakes and landslides. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc12.jpg TIMOTESUBANI, GEORGIA. Worshippers during Sunday mass in the Timotesubani Church on July 25, 2010. Located in the Borjomi gorge, the Timotesubani Church and monastic complex is a few kilometers from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline route, making it perhaps the most religious sites along the BTC route in Georgia, the only Christian country traversed by the oil pipeline. TIMOTESUBANI, GEORGIA. Worshippers during Sunday mass in the Timotesubani Church on July 25, 2010. Located in the Borjomi gorge, the Timotesubani Church and monastic complex is a few kilometers from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline route, making it perhaps the most religious sites along the BTC route in Georgia, the only Christian country traversed by the oil pipeline. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc14.jpg ALAKHI SANGORI, GEORGIA. Mariam Aptsiauri and her husband Anzori Aptsiauri in their home on August 1, 2010. While the Aptsiauris have received nothing yet in compensation for having the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline traverse their farmlands, destroying the possibility for continued agricultural production there because of damage to the topsoil and live in poverty, their neighbor Gia Obgaidze is likely the largest recipient of compensation funds in Georgia, which he used to start a chicken farm in addition to remodeling his home; according to an attorney who formerly handled compensation issues with the Young Lawyers Association, Obgaidze likely received 187,000 Georgian lari or approximately $100,000. ALAKHI SANGORI, GEORGIA. Mariam Aptsiauri and her husband Anzori Aptsiauri in their home on August 1, 2010. While the Aptsiauris have received nothing yet in compensation for having the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline traverse their farmlands, destroying the possibility for continued agricultural production there because of damage to the topsoil and live in poverty, their neighbor Gia Obgaidze is likely the largest recipient of compensation funds in Georgia, which he used to start a chicken farm in addition to remodeling his home; according to an attorney who formerly handled compensation issues with the Young Lawyers Association, Obgaidze likely received 187,000 Georgian lari or approximately $100,000. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc48.jpg KODA, GEORGIA. (Left) Venera Arbolishvili, 75, cooks dinner for her extended family with her daughter in the kitchen of her new home in the internally displaced persons (IDP) settlement in Koda, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia on January 20, 2012. Originally from the village of Eredvi in South Ossetia, formerly a territory of Georgia which was lost to the Russians during the 2008 August War, Arbolishvili said during the war, an unknown assailant fired from a car and killed her husband who died in her arms and subsequently she was forced to flee her home before she could bury him. KODA, GEORGIA. (Left) Venera Arbolishvili, 75, cooks dinner for her extended family with her daughter in the kitchen of her new home in the internally displaced persons (IDP) settlement in Koda, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia on January 20, 2012. Originally from the village of Eredvi in South Ossetia, formerly a territory of Georgia which was lost to the Russians during the 2008 August War, Arbolishvili said during the war, an unknown assailant fired from a car and killed her husband who died in her arms and subsequently she was forced to flee her home before she could bury him. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc49.jpg RUSTAVI, GEORGIA. Workers smelting scrap metal before it is converted to steel at the Rustavi Steel plant in Rustavi, Kvemo Kartli region, Georgia on January 20, 2012. Built in 1946 at the height of Stalinist power in the Soviet Union and upgraded in recent years, Rustavi Steel employs 1,750 in what was once the greatest industrial center of Soviet Georgia; today several heavy industry factories remain in the city which is traversed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. RUSTAVI, GEORGIA. Workers smelting scrap metal before it is converted to steel at the Rustavi Steel plant in Rustavi, Kvemo Kartli region, Georgia on January 20, 2012. Built in 1946 at the height of Stalinist power in the Soviet Union and upgraded in recent years, Rustavi Steel employs 1,750 in what was once the greatest industrial center of Soviet Georgia; today several heavy industry factories remain in the city which is traversed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc50.jpg TBILISI, GEORGIA. A child beggar sleeps on the street mid-day on Rustaveli Avenue, the main thoroughfare in Tbilisi, Georgia on July 22, 2010. With high unemployment and few economic prospects and lacking the mineral wealth of neighboring oil-rich Azerbaijan, Georgia still finds itself in a state of post-Soviet economic limbo despite receiving approximately $65 million in annual transit fees from having the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline route cross its territory. TBILISI, GEORGIA. A child beggar sleeps on the street mid-day on Rustaveli Avenue, the main thoroughfare in Tbilisi, Georgia on July 22, 2010. With high unemployment and few economic prospects and lacking the mineral wealth of neighboring oil-rich Azerbaijan, Georgia still finds itself in a state of post-Soviet economic limbo despite receiving approximately $65 million in annual transit fees from having the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline route cross its territory. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc13.jpg SAKIRE, GEORGIA. A man drives his Mercedes down a dirt road as locals work on paving the road in the village of Sakire where there were almost no cars five years ago to over 200 today, according to locals, as a result of the dispersal of compensation funds stemming from land-use rights of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline which runs through the nearby mountains where manyin Sakire own land beside the village of Tadzrisi on July 24, 2010. SAKIRE, GEORGIA. A man drives his Mercedes down a dirt road as locals work on paving the road in the village of Sakire where there were almost no cars five years ago to over 200 today, according to locals, as a result of the dispersal of compensation funds stemming from land-use rights of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline which runs through the nearby mountains where manyin Sakire own land beside the village of Tadzrisi on July 24, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc26.jpg ERZURUM, TURKEY. Erzurum in Turkey's far northeast, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, is perhaps Turkey's most conservative city, where chador is often more common than secularly dressed women on August 7, 2010. ERZURUM, TURKEY. Erzurum in Turkey's far northeast, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, is perhaps Turkey's most conservative city, where chador is often more common than secularly dressed women on August 7, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc38.jpg ERZURUM, TURKEY. A male nurse stands over a man after giving blood at a blood drive organized by the Turkish Red Crescent in a tent on Cumhurriyet Road in Erzurum, Turkey, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 11, 2010, the first night of Ramadan. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are encouraged to give Zakat or money for charity, one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith, and those who cannot are instructed to donate blood and perform other acts of charity. ERZURUM, TURKEY. A male nurse stands over a man after giving blood at a blood drive organized by the Turkish Red Crescent in a tent on Cumhurriyet Road in Erzurum, Turkey, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 11, 2010, the first night of Ramadan. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are encouraged to give Zakat or money for charity, one of the five pillars of the Muslim faith, and those who cannot are instructed to donate blood and perform other acts of charity. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc51.jpg ERZURUM, TURKEY. People take their seats inside an Iftar tent, when Muslims break their fast after abstaining from food and drink during the day on the second night of the month long celebration of Ramadan, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 12, 2010. ERZURUM, TURKEY. People take their seats inside an Iftar tent, when Muslims break their fast after abstaining from food and drink during the day on the second night of the month long celebration of Ramadan, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 12, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc52.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Men pray in an underground shopping center during a weekly protest called "civil Fridays," where men hear prayers from a Kurdish speaking imam not approved by the Turkish state, as an act of civil disobedience in Diyarbakir, Turkey on February 24, 2012. In Turkey, mosques fall under the control of the Turkish state and other religious activities are deemed unofficial and, on occasion, illegal; Diyarbakir is a majority Kurdish city and the most political active, restive in the Kurdish-dominated areas of eastern Turkey. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Men pray in an underground shopping center during a weekly protest called "civil Fridays," where men hear prayers from a Kurdish speaking imam not approved by the Turkish state, as an act of civil disobedience in Diyarbakir, Turkey on February 24, 2012. In Turkey, mosques fall under the control of the Turkish state and other religious activities are deemed unofficial and, on occasion, illegal; Diyarbakir is a majority Kurdish city and the most political active, restive in the Kurdish-dominated areas of eastern Turkey. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc53.jpg ALVAR, TURKEY. Women sit for a reading of the Koran late morning in the home of Murat Ozturk in the village of Alvar, Erzurum region, Turkey, which is traversed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, on the first day of Ramadan, August 11, 2010. ALVAR, TURKEY. Women sit for a reading of the Koran late morning in the home of Murat Ozturk in the village of Alvar, Erzurum region, Turkey, which is traversed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, on the first day of Ramadan, August 11, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc29.jpg ERZURUM, TURKEY. A Turkish picnicker rocks her child as he sleeps in a hammock at a site near the Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 8, 2010. ERZURUM, TURKEY. A Turkish picnicker rocks her child as he sleeps in a hammock at a site near the Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey, the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport, on August 8, 2010. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc54.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Young women sing Kurdish songs in the cafe of the Kurdish Cultural Center in Diyarbakir, Turkey on February 25, 2012. After nearly a century of forced assimilation policies in Turkey, many Kurds are standing up for their culture and language in a renewed bid for cultural, if not political, independence; only the Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, has managed to successfully attacked the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Young women sing Kurdish songs in the cafe of the Kurdish Cultural Center in Diyarbakir, Turkey on February 25, 2012. After nearly a century of forced assimilation policies in Turkey, many Kurds are standing up for their culture and language in a renewed bid for cultural, if not political, independence; only the Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, has managed to successfully attacked the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc55.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Hunger strikers protest the arrest, detentions and alleged torture of family members in connection with the wide reaching Kurdish Communities Union, KCK, case which has been used as the official pretext to jail an estimated 7,000 activists, members of civil society and others vocal on the Kurdish issue at the office of the Peace and Democracy Party, BDP, the political party of the Kurdish Workers Party, PKK, the main Kurdish guerrilla group, in Diyarbakir, Turkey on February 22, 2012. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Hunger strikers protest the arrest, detentions and alleged torture of family members in connection with the wide reaching Kurdish Communities Union, KCK, case which has been used as the official pretext to jail an estimated 7,000 activists, members of civil society and others vocal on the Kurdish issue at the office of the Peace and Democracy Party, BDP, the political party of the Kurdish Workers Party, PKK, the main Kurdish guerrilla group, in Diyarbakir, Turkey on February 22, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc56.jpg REYHANLI, TURKEY. Syrian children play in a junkyard of old, abandoned and destroyed vehicles at the entrance to the Reyhanli tent city in Reyhanli, Turkey on February 26, 2012. As the year old rebellion against the rule of Bashar Al-Assad continues just across the border in Syria, Turkey has seen a continued influx of refugees from the Syrian conflict but has not granted them refugee status and instead considers them to be "guests" of Turkey; Turkey's border with Syria is just one hour from the Ceyhan Marine Terminal where the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline ends its 1,100 mile journey at the Mediterranean port. REYHANLI, TURKEY. Syrian children play in a junkyard of old, abandoned and destroyed vehicles at the entrance to the Reyhanli tent city in Reyhanli, Turkey on February 26, 2012. As the year old rebellion against the rule of Bashar Al-Assad continues just across the border in Syria, Turkey has seen a continued influx of refugees from the Syrian conflict but has not granted them refugee status and instead considers them to be "guests" of Turkey; Turkey's border with Syria is just one hour from the Ceyhan Marine Terminal where the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline ends its 1,100 mile journey at the Mediterranean port. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc23.jpg YUMURTALIK, TURKEY. Mehmet Erzin, 40, a fisherman, leaves from the port of Yumurtalik, Turkey late in the afternoon on August 15, 2010 to go lay down his nets in the Mediterranean Sea. Many fisherman complain of depleted stocks and environmental damage resulting from the growth of industry and industrial dumping from a nearby thermal power plant after the construction of the end terminal of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was completed and located so close to their ports. YUMURTALIK, TURKEY. Mehmet Erzin, 40, a fisherman, leaves from the port of Yumurtalik, Turkey late in the afternoon on August 15, 2010 to go lay down his nets in the Mediterranean Sea. Many fisherman complain of depleted stocks and environmental damage resulting from the growth of industry and industrial dumping from a nearby thermal power plant after the construction of the end terminal of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was completed and located so close to their ports. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc37.jpg MEDITERRANEAN SEA NEAR YUMURTALIK, TURKEY. Mehmet Erzin, 40, a fisherman, separates the biggest fish from his catch after retrieving his nets early in the morning on August 16, 2010. Many fisherman complain of depleted stocks and environmental damage resulting from the growth of industry and industrial dumping from a nearby thermal power plant after the construction of the end terminal of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was completed and located so close to their ports. MEDITERRANEAN SEA NEAR YUMURTALIK, TURKEY. Mehmet Erzin, 40, a fisherman, separates the biggest fish from his catch after retrieving his nets early in the morning on August 16, 2010. Many fisherman complain of depleted stocks and environmental damage resulting from the growth of industry and industrial dumping from a nearby thermal power plant after the construction of the end terminal of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was completed and located so close to their ports. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc22.jpg CEYHAN MARINE TERMINAL, TURKEY. Philipino workers load Azeri crude oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline onto a Greek oil tanker, The Aegean Myth on August 16, 2010 before setting sail for Rotterdam, The Netherlands. CEYHAN MARINE TERMINAL, TURKEY. Philipino workers load Azeri crude oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline onto a Greek oil tanker, The Aegean Myth on August 16, 2010 before setting sail for Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/btc57.jpg CEYHAN MARINE TERMINAL, TURKEY. A Philipino worker seen through a bucket to catch leaking crude oil secures a valve after loading Azeri crude oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline onto a Greek oil tanker, The Aegean Myth, on August 16, 2010 before setting sail for Rotterdam, The Netherlands. CEYHAN MARINE TERMINAL, TURKEY. A Philipino worker seen through a bucket to catch leaking crude oil secures a valve after loading Azeri crude oil from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline onto a Greek oil tanker, The Aegean Myth, on August 16, 2010 before setting sail for Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://amandarivkin.com/odessa-diary monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary01.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A Military Academy student marches down the street with a young woman beside him to a ceremony at the April 10 Monument where the student soldiers will be promoted to the rank of lieutenant on February 26, 2016. With war raging in eastern Ukraine with Russian-backed separatists, more young men and women have enlisted and the popularity of military education has increased, including among civilians; the April 10 monument commemorates Soviet victory over the Nazi occupation in Odessa. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A Military Academy student marches down the street with a young woman beside him to a ceremony at the April 10 Monument where the student soldiers will be promoted to the rank of lieutenant on February 26, 2016. With war raging in eastern Ukraine with Russian-backed separatists, more young men and women have enlisted and the popularity of military education has increased, including among civilians; the April 10 monument commemorates Soviet victory over the Nazi occupation in Odessa. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary02.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. Family and friends gathered at the April 10 monument to watch as Military Academy students are promoted to the rank of lieutenant on February 26, 2016. With war raging in eastern Ukraine with Russian-backed separatists, more young men and women have enlisted and the popularity of military education has increased, including among civilians; the April 10 monument commemorates Soviet victory over the Nazi occupation in Odessa. ODESSA, UKRAINE. Family and friends gathered at the April 10 monument to watch as Military Academy students are promoted to the rank of lieutenant on February 26, 2016. With war raging in eastern Ukraine with Russian-backed separatists, more young men and women have enlisted and the popularity of military education has increased, including among civilians; the April 10 monument commemorates Soviet victory over the Nazi occupation in Odessa. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary03.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A medical student examines a formaldehyde cadaver in an anatomical theater classroom at the Odessa National Medical University on February 18, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A medical student examines a formaldehyde cadaver in an anatomical theater classroom at the Odessa National Medical University on February 18, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary04.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A snowy interior courtyard characteristic of many homes on January 27, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A snowy interior courtyard characteristic of many homes on January 27, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary05.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. Pedestrians around a statue of the Duc de Richelieu at the top of the Potemkin steps in the snow on January 18, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. Pedestrians around a statue of the Duc de Richelieu at the top of the Potemkin steps in the snow on January 18, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary06.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. Orthodox Christians celebrate epiphany by the seaside with a baptismal-like ritual in frigid temperatures at Lazheron Beach on January 19, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. Orthodox Christians celebrate epiphany by the seaside with a baptismal-like ritual in frigid temperatures at Lazheron Beach on January 19, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary07.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. Women at the P1 Prosecco Bar on Orthodox Christmas on January 7, 2015. ODESSA, UKRAINE. Women at the P1 Prosecco Bar on Orthodox Christmas on January 7, 2015. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary18.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A couple makes out under the moonlight Hretska Square on February 22, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A couple makes out under the moonlight Hretska Square on February 22, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary08.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A collection by local designer Valkiria is presented during an invitation-only evening of fashion shows and performances at the Ministerium night club on February 6, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A collection by local designer Valkiria is presented during an invitation-only evening of fashion shows and performances at the Ministerium night club on February 6, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary09.jpg OSYCHKY, ODESSA OBLAST, UKRAINE. Mikhail Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia and current Governor of Odessa Oblast appointed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, meets and poses for photographs with locals at the Christmas bazaar on January 10, 2016. Saakashvili is said to be Ukraine's most popular politician who many in Odessa have dubbed their "last hope"; during the five-day August War in 2008, Russian forces attempted to assassinate him but he survived and their remains deep enmity between him and the Kremlin. OSYCHKY, ODESSA OBLAST, UKRAINE. Mikhail Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia and current Governor of Odessa Oblast appointed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, meets and poses for photographs with locals at the Christmas bazaar on January 10, 2016. Saakashvili is said to be Ukraine's most popular politician who many in Odessa have dubbed their "last hope"; during the five-day August War in 2008, Russian forces attempted to assassinate him but he survived and their remains deep enmity between him and the Kremlin. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary10.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. The priest performs Christmas mass at the Christmas Church on January 7, 2016. Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on January 7. ODESSA, UKRAINE. The priest performs Christmas mass at the Christmas Church on January 7, 2016. Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on January 7. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary11.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. The priest performs Christmas mass at the Christmas Church on January 7, 2016. Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on January 7. ODESSA, UKRAINE. The priest performs Christmas mass at the Christmas Church on January 7, 2016. Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on January 7. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary12.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. Secret service arrest a man as one of their team films the arrest in Odessa, Ukraine on February 22, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. Secret service arrest a man as one of their team films the arrest in Odessa, Ukraine on February 22, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary17.jpg OSYCHKY, ODESSA OBLAST, UKRAINE. Angels stand at the entrance to St. Nicholas workshop at the Christmas bazaar on January 10, 2016. OSYCHKY, ODESSA OBLAST, UKRAINE. Angels stand at the entrance to St. Nicholas workshop at the Christmas bazaar on January 10, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary14.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. The free trade zone at the port of Odessa on February 27, 2016. Since Crimea was seized by Russia in 2014, Odessa's port has been the main point of entry for goods coming mainly from Russia, China and Turkey and elsewhere in the world in to Ukraine. ODESSA, UKRAINE. The free trade zone at the port of Odessa on February 27, 2016. Since Crimea was seized by Russia in 2014, Odessa's port has been the main point of entry for goods coming mainly from Russia, China and Turkey and elsewhere in the world in to Ukraine. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary15.jpg SYM KILOMETER (SEVEN KILOMETER), ODESSA OBLAST, UKRAINE. Traders at the large wholesale market on the outskirts of Odessa in Sym Kilometer (Seven Kilometer), Ukraine on February 18, 2016. Odessa's port is the main port of entry for goods, largely from China and Turkey, into Ukraine since Russia seized Crimea in 2014. SYM KILOMETER (SEVEN KILOMETER), ODESSA OBLAST, UKRAINE. Traders at the large wholesale market on the outskirts of Odessa in Sym Kilometer (Seven Kilometer), Ukraine on February 18, 2016. Odessa's port is the main port of entry for goods, largely from China and Turkey, into Ukraine since Russia seized Crimea in 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary16.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. Vendors and customers in the vegetable and fruit pavilion at the large Privoz market on February 17, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. Vendors and customers in the vegetable and fruit pavilion at the large Privoz market on February 17, 2016. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary13.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A road block set up by Ukrainian pro-Maidan activists and soldiers at the entrance to Odessa from Transdnistria, located 15 kilometers down the road, on February 18, 2016. Two days prior to this photograph, a truck carrying guns from Russia was stopped from entering Odessa. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A road block set up by Ukrainian pro-Maidan activists and soldiers at the entrance to Odessa from Transdnistria, located 15 kilometers down the road, on February 18, 2016. Two days prior to this photograph, a truck carrying guns from Russia was stopped from entering Odessa. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_odessadiary19.jpg ODESSA, UKRAINE. A couple and a young man ride the trolley bus on Valentine's Day on February 14, 2016. ODESSA, UKRAINE. A couple and a young man ride the trolley bus on Valentine's Day on February 14, 2016. https://amandarivkin.com/turkey-in-transition monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey01.jpg ERZURUM, TURKEY. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan departs a political rally in support of the September 12 referendum which would change the nature of the country's constitutional court to solidify the hold of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) under the pretext that it would prevent future military coups, in Turkey's conservative far northeast on August 13, 2010. Erzurum is the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport. ERZURUM, TURKEY. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan departs a political rally in support of the September 12 referendum which would change the nature of the country's constitutional court to solidify the hold of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) under the pretext that it would prevent future military coups, in Turkey's conservative far northeast on August 13, 2010. Erzurum is the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey02.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A woman walks through Taksim Square just before the start of Ramadan at sundown on July 9, 2013. Since demonstrators occupied the adjacent Gezi Park for two and a half weeks last month, police have maintained a heavy presence in Taksim Square and periodic clashes have erupted as demonstrators have returned to the square in protest of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A woman walks through Taksim Square just before the start of Ramadan at sundown on July 9, 2013. Since demonstrators occupied the adjacent Gezi Park for two and a half weeks last month, police have maintained a heavy presence in Taksim Square and periodic clashes have erupted as demonstrators have returned to the square in protest of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey06.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A fragment of a poster of ataturk is seen in Gezi Park after 12 days of occupying the park after police retook the adjacent Taksim Square but left demonstrators in the park on June 13, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered a referendum on the park to residents of Istanbul, despite there being no law allowing for such practices, and telling demonstrators to evacuate the park as patience with the demonstration is over. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A fragment of a poster of ataturk is seen in Gezi Park after 12 days of occupying the park after police retook the adjacent Taksim Square but left demonstrators in the park on June 13, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered a referendum on the park to residents of Istanbul, despite there being no law allowing for such practices, and telling demonstrators to evacuate the park as patience with the demonstration is over. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey03.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. People are seen exiting to join the protests in Taksim Square at the Taksim metro station after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from the square as it transforms increasingly into a free, carnival-like zone on June 6, 2013. The crisis which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. People are seen exiting to join the protests in Taksim Square at the Taksim metro station after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from the square as it transforms increasingly into a free, carnival-like zone on June 6, 2013. The crisis which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey09.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Men pray outside the Nebi mosque, an official Turkish mosque with an imam approved by the Turkish state, during Friday prayers on February 24, 2012. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Men pray outside the Nebi mosque, an official Turkish mosque with an imam approved by the Turkish state, during Friday prayers on February 24, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey14.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A nationalist demonstrator marces up Istiklal Caddesi from Tunel in support of Ataturk's principles of a secular republic and against the ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP in Turkish, on Republic Day on October 29, 2012. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A nationalist demonstrator marces up Istiklal Caddesi from Tunel in support of Ataturk's principles of a secular republic and against the ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP in Turkish, on Republic Day on October 29, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey20.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A woman prays as another checks her cell phone inside the Blue Mosque compound in the Sutanahment neighborhood on January 12, 2014. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A woman prays as another checks her cell phone inside the Blue Mosque compound in the Sutanahment neighborhood on January 12, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey17.jpg ESKISEHIR, TURKEY. Members of the audience go wild during the Turkvision Song Contest semifinals at the Besyo Sport Stadium at Anadolu University on December 19, 2013. The Turkvision Song Contest is Turkey's pan-Turkic response to the Eurovision Song Contest and 2013 is its inaugural year; Turkey has a history of participating in Eurovision dating back to 1975 but withdrew from the competition in 2013 after not airing the contest and paying a fine in 2012 when the government cited an on-air lesbian kiss as being against Turkish values. ESKISEHIR, TURKEY. Members of the audience go wild during the Turkvision Song Contest semifinals at the Besyo Sport Stadium at Anadolu University on December 19, 2013. The Turkvision Song Contest is Turkey's pan-Turkic response to the Eurovision Song Contest and 2013 is its inaugural year; Turkey has a history of participating in Eurovision dating back to 1975 but withdrew from the competition in 2013 after not airing the contest and paying a fine in 2012 when the government cited an on-air lesbian kiss as being against Turkish values. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey07.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. The interior of the upstairs balcony of the Surp Asdvadzadzin Armenian Catholic Church in Beyoglu on November 30, 2012. The church makes money by renting out space it owns in the neighboring building to a series of night clubs, including one gay club. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. The interior of the upstairs balcony of the Surp Asdvadzadzin Armenian Catholic Church in Beyoglu on November 30, 2012. The church makes money by renting out space it owns in the neighboring building to a series of night clubs, including one gay club. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey04.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Visitors are seen on the upper level of the Aya Sofya, formerly Hagia Sophia which was converted from church to mosque with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, on December 21, 2011. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Visitors are seen on the upper level of the Aya Sofya, formerly Hagia Sophia which was converted from church to mosque with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, on December 21, 2011. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey19.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Mothers and family members of the disappeared protest the lack of information about their relatives' whereabouts on February 25, 2012. The mothers and families gather every Saturday at one p.m. in an effort to keep the memory of those who have disappeared in Turkey's dirty war against the Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, guerrillas and their sympathizers alive. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Mothers and family members of the disappeared protest the lack of information about their relatives' whereabouts on February 25, 2012. The mothers and families gather every Saturday at one p.m. in an effort to keep the memory of those who have disappeared in Turkey's dirty war against the Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, guerrillas and their sympathizers alive. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey34.jpg FIS, TURKEY. Villagers eat lunch and drink tea in their home on February 24, 2012. Fis is known as one of the first meeting places of arrested Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan; Fis used to be home to 70 families but the Turkish military destroyed much of the town repeatedly in 1993-1994 in retalliatory strikes for the villagers show of sympathy to the PKK guerrillas who they provided food and shelter to ("They are our sons," in the words of one villager), and now only seven homes have been rebuilt in Fis after a period of forced exile from the village and everyone is too scared to provide their name. FIS, TURKEY. Villagers eat lunch and drink tea in their home on February 24, 2012. Fis is known as one of the first meeting places of arrested Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan; Fis used to be home to 70 families but the Turkish military destroyed much of the town repeatedly in 1993-1994 in retalliatory strikes for the villagers show of sympathy to the PKK guerrillas who they provided food and shelter to ("They are our sons," in the words of one villager), and now only seven homes have been rebuilt in Fis after a period of forced exile from the village and everyone is too scared to provide their name. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey21.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. People push their way to receive a free Iftar dinner sponsored by the Beyoglu municipality in Taksim Square at the start of Ramadan on July 9, 2013. Since demonstrators occupied Gezi Park for two and a half weeks last month, police have maintained a heavy presence in Taksim Square and periodic clashes have erupted as demonstrators have returned to the square in protest of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. People push their way to receive a free Iftar dinner sponsored by the Beyoglu municipality in Taksim Square at the start of Ramadan on July 9, 2013. Since demonstrators occupied Gezi Park for two and a half weeks last month, police have maintained a heavy presence in Taksim Square and periodic clashes have erupted as demonstrators have returned to the square in protest of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_osf_refugees02.jpg GUVECCI, TURKEY. Syrians who fled from the year old rebellion against the rule of Bashar Al Assad in neighboring Syria sit in the home of a relative just across the border on February 27, 2012. Turkey has seen a continued influx of refugees from the Syrian conflict and border towns like Guvecci have watched as their populations have more than doubled. GUVECCI, TURKEY. Syrians who fled from the year old rebellion against the rule of Bashar Al Assad in neighboring Syria sit in the home of a relative just across the border on February 27, 2012. Turkey has seen a continued influx of refugees from the Syrian conflict and border towns like Guvecci have watched as their populations have more than doubled. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_osf_refugees04.jpg KILIS, TURKEY. An outdoor cafe frequented by Syrians and others around the corner and down the street from the Otel Istanbul on April 4, 2013. At this moment, Kilis is crowded with Syrian refugees who have made temporary homes in available apartments, motel rooms, and wherever they can really. KILIS, TURKEY. An outdoor cafe frequented by Syrians and others around the corner and down the street from the Otel Istanbul on April 4, 2013. At this moment, Kilis is crowded with Syrian refugees who have made temporary homes in available apartments, motel rooms, and wherever they can really. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey18.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. A young man receives a haircut in a hair salon in the old city on February 22, 2012. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. A young man receives a haircut in a hair salon in the old city on February 22, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey25.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women are seen talking on their cell phones in the front row before the start of the Erol Albayrak Spring/Summer 2013 fashion show at Istanbul Fashion Week on October 11, 2012. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women are seen talking on their cell phones in the front row before the start of the Erol Albayrak Spring/Summer 2013 fashion show at Istanbul Fashion Week on October 11, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey26.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women are seen admiring different fashions showcased in the entrance at Antreppo 3 after the Erol Albayrak fashion show during Istanbul Fashion Week on October 11, 2012. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women are seen admiring different fashions showcased in the entrance at Antreppo 3 after the Erol Albayrak fashion show during Istanbul Fashion Week on October 11, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey24.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A crowd gathers outside Antreppo 3, a warehouse-like facility on the Bosphorous in Tophane beside the Istanbul Modern art museum, after Simay Bulbul's Spring/Summer 2013 are seen at Istanbul Fashion Week on October 11, 2012. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A crowd gathers outside Antreppo 3, a warehouse-like facility on the Bosphorous in Tophane beside the Istanbul Modern art museum, after Simay Bulbul's Spring/Summer 2013 are seen at Istanbul Fashion Week on October 11, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey27.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Two women are seen in the backseat of an SUV exiting Istanbul Fashion Week outside Antreppo 3, a warehouse-like venue on the Boshporous in Tophane, after the Soul by Ozgur Masur fashion show on October 12, 2012. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Two women are seen in the backseat of an SUV exiting Istanbul Fashion Week outside Antreppo 3, a warehouse-like venue on the Boshporous in Tophane, after the Soul by Ozgur Masur fashion show on October 12, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey22.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. People gather for Iftar dinner on newspapers on Istiklal Street in a show of solidarity with the demonstrators that had previously occupied Gezi Park at the start of Ramadan on July 9, 2013. Since demonstrators occupied Gezi Park for two and a half weeks last month, police have maintained a heavy presence in Taksim Square and periodic clashes have erupted as demonstrators have returned to the square in protest of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. People gather for Iftar dinner on newspapers on Istiklal Street in a show of solidarity with the demonstrators that had previously occupied Gezi Park at the start of Ramadan on July 9, 2013. Since demonstrators occupied Gezi Park for two and a half weeks last month, police have maintained a heavy presence in Taksim Square and periodic clashes have erupted as demonstrators have returned to the square in protest of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey23.jpg ANKARA, TURKEY. People stage a sit-in against police brutality and the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the middle of Kennedy Street on July 11, 2013. ANKARA, TURKEY. People stage a sit-in against police brutality and the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the middle of Kennedy Street on July 11, 2013. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey30.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Near Taksim Square another mall project less controversial than the one that lead to protesters to occupy Gezi Park which is also part of the controversial Taksim renovation project is seen the afternoon after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Near Taksim Square another mall project less controversial than the one that lead to protesters to occupy Gezi Park which is also part of the controversial Taksim renovation project is seen the afternoon after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey28.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Fisherman are seen on the Karakoy shore beside the Galata Bridge on January 11, 2014. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Fisherman are seen on the Karakoy shore beside the Galata Bridge on January 11, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey32.jpg ERZURUM, TURKEY. A man enters the Lala Pasha Mosque before evening prayer on the first night of Ramadan on August 11, 2010. Erzurum is the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport. ERZURUM, TURKEY. A man enters the Lala Pasha Mosque before evening prayer on the first night of Ramadan on August 11, 2010. Erzurum is the first major city near the route of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, located just 10 kilometers from the pipeline which traverses numerous villages near the city's airport. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey08.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. A young girl plays with a stick on the street beside a kiln for making bread just beyond the old city wall as seen from the old city wall on February 24, 2012. Diyarbakir is home to approximately one million people, the majority of whom are Kurds, Turkey's largest ethnic minority. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. A young girl plays with a stick on the street beside a kiln for making bread just beyond the old city wall as seen from the old city wall on February 24, 2012. Diyarbakir is home to approximately one million people, the majority of whom are Kurds, Turkey's largest ethnic minority. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey33.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Children study Kurdish language and culture and are instructed on their rights by a teacher at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Literature and Culture Center on February 25, 2012. After nearly a century of forced assimilation policies in Turkey, many Kurds are standing up for their culture and language in a renewed bid for cultural, if not political, independence. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. Children study Kurdish language and culture and are instructed on their rights by a teacher at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Literature and Culture Center on February 25, 2012. After nearly a century of forced assimilation policies in Turkey, many Kurds are standing up for their culture and language in a renewed bid for cultural, if not political, independence. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey35.jpg DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. A Kurdish woman reads from the Koran in her living room after having recently returned from a pilgrimmage to Mecca on February 28, 2012. DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY. A Kurdish woman reads from the Koran in her living room after having recently returned from a pilgrimmage to Mecca on February 28, 2012. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkey36.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women are seen standing on the ferry from the Prince's Islands to Karaköy on October 14, 2012. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women are seen standing on the ferry from the Prince's Islands to Karaköy on October 14, 2012. https://amandarivkin.com/turkey-gezi-uprising monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising01.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. The crowd in Taksim Square reacts to a pyrotechnics show of fireworks and torches in during ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. The crowd in Taksim Square reacts to a pyrotechnics show of fireworks and torches in during ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising02.jpg ANKARA, TURKEY. Protesters gather on Kennedy Street to express their distaste for Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish acronym AK Party, on June 16, 2013. Since protesters occupied and were evicted from Gezi Park in Istanbul's main Taksim Square in late May, nationwide protests have followed in solidarity with the cause and against Erdogan. ANKARA, TURKEY. Protesters gather on Kennedy Street to express their distaste for Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish acronym AK Party, on June 16, 2013. Since protesters occupied and were evicted from Gezi Park in Istanbul's main Taksim Square in late May, nationwide protests have followed in solidarity with the cause and against Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising03.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A protester poses in front of a Turkish-made TOMA riot control vehicle in Taksim Square the evening after riot police moved to retake the square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A protester poses in front of a Turkish-made TOMA riot control vehicle in Taksim Square the evening after riot police moved to retake the square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising04.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A young woman is seen smoking a cigarette in the middle of the tent city in Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A young woman is seen smoking a cigarette in the middle of the tent city in Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising05.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks continue to occupy Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square by camping out on June 10, 2013. Ten days of protests that began over plans to demolish Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square and have spread into a nationwide manifestation of dislike for the policies and ruling style of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who critics charge has become increasingly authoritarian. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks continue to occupy Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square by camping out on June 10, 2013. Ten days of protests that began over plans to demolish Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square and have spread into a nationwide manifestation of dislike for the policies and ruling style of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who critics charge has become increasingly authoritarian. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising06.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks wave their hands in Gezi Park after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone on June 5, 2013. The crisis which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks wave their hands in Gezi Park after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone on June 5, 2013. The crisis which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising07.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Flags bearing Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed PKK leader, and the Kurdish national flag are seen in the middle of Taksim Square on an overturned police vehicle during a protest of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square leading to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Flags bearing Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed PKK leader, and the Kurdish national flag are seen in the middle of Taksim Square on an overturned police vehicle during a protest of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square leading to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising09.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Protesters remain camped out in Gezi Park after 12 days of occupying the park after police retook the adjacent Taksim Square but left demonstrators in the park on June 13, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered a referendum on the park to residents of Istanbul, despite there being no law allowing for such practices, and telling demonstrators to evacuate the park as patience with the demonstration is over. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Protesters remain camped out in Gezi Park after 12 days of occupying the park after police retook the adjacent Taksim Square but left demonstrators in the park on June 13, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered a referendum on the park to residents of Istanbul, despite there being no law allowing for such practices, and telling demonstrators to evacuate the park as patience with the demonstration is over. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising10.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Posters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk surrounded by painted over graffiti are seen near Taksim Square on June 13, 2013. On the 17th day of protest and periodic riots in Istanbul, many awoke to find graffiti opposing the ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, had been painted over by municipal workers overnight. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Posters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk surrounded by painted over graffiti are seen near Taksim Square on June 13, 2013. On the 17th day of protest and periodic riots in Istanbul, many awoke to find graffiti opposing the ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish acronym AKP, had been painted over by municipal workers overnight. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising11.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Police fire tear gas at demonstrators on the road and into Gezi Park from Taksim Square as they move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Police fire tear gas at demonstrators on the road and into Gezi Park from Taksim Square as they move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising12.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A man is seen protecting his eyes from tear gas as smoke billows from a flaming vehicle in Taksim Square as riot police move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A man is seen protecting his eyes from tear gas as smoke billows from a flaming vehicle in Taksim Square as riot police move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising13.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women react to tear gas in Taksim Square as riot police move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women react to tear gas in Taksim Square as riot police move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising15.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A young woman blows bubbles in Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A young woman blows bubbles in Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising16.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A bride and groom promenade in Taksim Square in protest of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square leading to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A bride and groom promenade in Taksim Square in protest of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square leading to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising17.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A motorcycle rally occurred late Sunday afternoon in Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 9, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A motorcycle rally occurred late Sunday afternoon in Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 9, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising18.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. The crowd in Taksim Square reacts to a pyrotechnics show of fireworks and torches in during ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. The crowd in Taksim Square reacts to a pyrotechnics show of fireworks and torches in during ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising19.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks gather in Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks gather in Taksim Square where ongoing protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square have lead to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising20.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turkish children light a paper lantern at a protest in Taksim Square after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from the square as it transforms increasingly into a free, carnival-like zone in Istanbul, Turkey on June 6, 2013. The crisis which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turkish children light a paper lantern at a protest in Taksim Square after a week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from the square as it transforms increasingly into a free, carnival-like zone in Istanbul, Turkey on June 6, 2013. The crisis which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising21.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Davide Martello, an Italian pianist and peace activist, plays The Beatles' "Let It Be" and the Italian partisan song "Ciao Bella" on the piano to a crowd that includes riot police in Taksim Square the evening after riot police moved to retake the square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Davide Martello, an Italian pianist and peace activist, plays The Beatles' "Let It Be" and the Italian partisan song "Ciao Bella" on the piano to a crowd that includes riot police in Taksim Square the evening after riot police moved to retake the square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising23.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A vendor is seen in Taksim Square early in the morning on June 10, 2013. After more than a week of protests in Taksim Square against the demolition of the adjacent Gezi Park in favor of a reconstructed Ottoman barracks and shopping mall which have escalated into a nationwide call of the country's secular-minded citizens for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, the signs of life slowly returning to normal are gradually reappearing after a weekend of street parties. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A vendor is seen in Taksim Square early in the morning on June 10, 2013. After more than a week of protests in Taksim Square against the demolition of the adjacent Gezi Park in favor of a reconstructed Ottoman barracks and shopping mall which have escalated into a nationwide call of the country's secular-minded citizens for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, the signs of life slowly returning to normal are gradually reappearing after a weekend of street parties. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising22.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks continue to sleep in Gezi Park a night after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks continue to sleep in Gezi Park a night after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising24.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks climb across a deconstructed construction site in Taksim Square in protest of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square leading to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks climb across a deconstructed construction site in Taksim Square in protest of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies a week after demonstrators forced police to withdraw from the square leading to a carnival-like sit-in on June 8, 2013. A week of protests led to police being barricaded out of and withdrawing from Istanbul's Taksim Square as it transforms increasingly into a free zone; the crisis, which began over construction of a park and plans to reconstruct Ottoman barracks and a shopping mall, has evolved into Turkey's biggest political crisis in decades as Turks express frustration with the current AK Party, Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising31.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women react to the tear gas in Taksim Square as riot police move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Women react to the tear gas in Taksim Square as riot police move on the square on June 11, 2013. After 10 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police moved to retake the square; last night, the Prime Minister called a meeting for tomorrow with protest leaders. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising34.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A mattress is seen on a pile of rubble after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. A mattress is seen on a pile of rubble after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square the night before on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising28.jpg ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks move to construct new barricades a night after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Turks move to construct new barricades a night after riot police moved to retake Taksim Square on June 12, 2013. After 11 days of protest and occupying Gezi Park adjacent to Taksim Square, riot police firmly took control of Taksim Square with street battles on back streets occurring until the early hours of the morning and a few hundred demonstrators continuing to camp out in the adjacent Gezi Park. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising35.jpg SINCAN, TURKEY. Posters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey's secular republic, and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan are seen adorning the facade of a building in Kent Square during a Justice and Development Party, AKP, rally where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to speak after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. SINCAN, TURKEY. Posters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey's secular republic, and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan are seen adorning the facade of a building in Kent Square during a Justice and Development Party, AKP, rally where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to speak after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising36.jpg SINCAN, TURKEY. Supporters of the Justice and Development Party, AKP, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gathered at a rally to hear Erdogan speak after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. SINCAN, TURKEY. Supporters of the Justice and Development Party, AKP, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gathered at a rally to hear Erdogan speak after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising39.jpg SINCAN, TURKEY. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a crowd of supporters after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. SINCAN, TURKEY. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a crowd of supporters after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/turkeyuprising38.jpg SINCAN, TURKEY. Religious female supporters of the Justice and Development Party, AKP, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lean out their window to hear Erdogan speak after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. SINCAN, TURKEY. Religious female supporters of the Justice and Development Party, AKP, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lean out their window to hear Erdogan speak after more than two weeks straight of protests across Turkey against his rule on June 15, 2013. Sincan is the site of the 1997 "post-modern coup" and where Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose for his Ankara rally to bolster his position with regard to ongoing protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square and across Turkey; at his rally he said that the security services would promptly take care of the protesters and shortly after riot police were unleashed on the peacefully gathered demonstrators who quickly retook the square. https://amandarivkin.com/home monthly 0.8 https://amandarivkin.com/postwar-bosnia-reconstruction monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia06.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man carries his bag into the train station, built during the socialist era, and now in the shadow of the Avaz Tower designed by architect Faruk Kapidzic for Bosnian media mogul and former Bosnian nationalist presidential candidate Fahrudin Radoncic on October 17, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man carries his bag into the train station, built during the socialist era, and now in the shadow of the Avaz Tower designed by architect Faruk Kapidzic for Bosnian media mogul and former Bosnian nationalist presidential candidate Fahrudin Radoncic on October 17, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia18.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A woman pushes a stroller passed election posters for the Union of Social Democrats ahead of October 12 national elections on October 8, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A woman pushes a stroller passed election posters for the Union of Social Democrats ahead of October 12 national elections on October 8, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/DSC_5515.jpg NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Train conductors Sakib Buzo, 53, and Izet Golubic, 51, drive the train to Doboj from the train station in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 20, 2014. Buzo and Golubic said they used to drive routes to Belgrade before the war but those were discontinued after the 1992-1995 conflict and routes to cities like Banja Luka inside the Republika Srpska, one of two entities in the present day divided Bosnia and Herzegovina, were discontinued in only the last few years as Serbian nationalism has been on the rise. NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Train conductors Sakib Buzo, 53, and Izet Golubic, 51, drive the train to Doboj from the train station in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 20, 2014. Buzo and Golubic said they used to drive routes to Belgrade before the war but those were discontinued after the 1992-1995 conflict and routes to cities like Banja Luka inside the Republika Srpska, one of two entities in the present day divided Bosnia and Herzegovina, were discontinued in only the last few years as Serbian nationalism has been on the rise. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia19.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man casts his ballot in Bosnia's elections in a school classroom on October 12, 2014. With 92 political parties and a tripartite presidency shared between a Serb, a Croat and a Bosniak, Bosnia's political system has been dubbed one of the most complex on earth. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man casts his ballot in Bosnia's elections in a school classroom on October 12, 2014. With 92 political parties and a tripartite presidency shared between a Serb, a Croat and a Bosniak, Bosnia's political system has been dubbed one of the most complex on earth. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia30.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A statue of Josip Broz Tito, the longest serving leader of communist Yugoslavia, stands in the middle of the campus of the University of Sarajevo on October 28, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A statue of Josip Broz Tito, the longest serving leader of communist Yugoslavia, stands in the middle of the campus of the University of Sarajevo on October 28, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia02.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. (At right) Andrea Dautovic, 57, a museum adviser and librarian in charge of the exchange of publications, retrieves the key to the ethnographic section of the shuddered Bosnian National Museum from a colleague in the courtyard garden on October 15, 2014. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012 after employees had worked one year without salaries, many of whom continue to work without salaries to this day; the Bosnian National Museum is short the minimum 700,000-800,000 Euro it would need to keep its doors open. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. (At right) Andrea Dautovic, 57, a museum adviser and librarian in charge of the exchange of publications, retrieves the key to the ethnographic section of the shuddered Bosnian National Museum from a colleague in the courtyard garden on October 15, 2014. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012 after employees had worked one year without salaries, many of whom continue to work without salaries to this day; the Bosnian National Museum is short the minimum 700,000-800,000 Euro it would need to keep its doors open. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia03.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Empty display cases in the archeology section of the Bosnian National Museum which museum keepers said were emptied for the safekeeping of artifacts on October 15, 2014. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012 after employees had worked one year without salaries, many of whom continue to work without salaries to this day; the Bosnian National Museum is short the minimum 700,000-800,000 Euro it would need to keep its doors open. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Empty display cases in the archeology section of the Bosnian National Museum which museum keepers said were emptied for the safekeeping of artifacts on October 15, 2014. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012 after employees had worked one year without salaries, many of whom continue to work without salaries to this day; the Bosnian National Museum is short the minimum 700,000-800,000 Euro it would need to keep its doors open. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia08.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. (L-r) Makeup artists Esefa Zornic, 30, touches up news anchor Marina Ridjic, 28, just before going on air on Al Jazeera Balkans in the BBI Center, which was designed by architect Sead Golos, on October 10, 2014. Qatari-financed Al Jazeera Balkans launched in November 2011 and is an anchor tenant of the BBI Center. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. (L-r) Makeup artists Esefa Zornic, 30, touches up news anchor Marina Ridjic, 28, just before going on air on Al Jazeera Balkans in the BBI Center, which was designed by architect Sead Golos, on October 10, 2014. Qatari-financed Al Jazeera Balkans launched in November 2011 and is an anchor tenant of the BBI Center. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/DSC_2476.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. People walk passed a building that shows a lack of certainty with regard to the facade's colors and windows on October 11, 2014. As Sarajevo was restored after the 1992-1995 siege according to private property regulations as opposed to the previous state order which allowed for less dissonance and continuity of styles. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. People walk passed a building that shows a lack of certainty with regard to the facade's colors and windows on October 11, 2014. As Sarajevo was restored after the 1992-1995 siege according to private property regulations as opposed to the previous state order which allowed for less dissonance and continuity of styles. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia10.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Friends share a moment looking at cell phone pictures in front of a dessert shop in the old city on October 11, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Friends share a moment looking at cell phone pictures in front of a dessert shop in the old city on October 11, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia22.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Serbian Orthodox arishoners line up to kiss the cross during Sunday mass at the Nativity of Theotokos - Mother of God Serbian Orthodox Cathedral on October 12, 2014. Many said they feel unwelcome in postwar Sarajevo and were either too old or too poor to move to the Republika Srpska. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Serbian Orthodox arishoners line up to kiss the cross during Sunday mass at the Nativity of Theotokos - Mother of God Serbian Orthodox Cathedral on October 12, 2014. Many said they feel unwelcome in postwar Sarajevo and were either too old or too poor to move to the Republika Srpska. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia25.jpg VISEGRAD, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man waves a Serbian flag as part of a wedding procession through the streets on October 18, 2014. Visegrad was ethnically cleansed by the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-1995 conflict; a plaque on the statue beside the café in the background states, "Monument to defenders of the Republika Srpska from the grateful people of Visegrad". VISEGRAD, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man waves a Serbian flag as part of a wedding procession through the streets on October 18, 2014. Visegrad was ethnically cleansed by the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-1995 conflict; a plaque on the statue beside the café in the background states, "Monument to defenders of the Republika Srpska from the grateful people of Visegrad". https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia26.jpg VISEGRADSKA BANJA, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A young Bosnian Serbian couple celebrates their wedding in the restaurant at the Vilina Vlas Hotel on October 18, 2014. The Vilina Vlas Hotel was used as a rape and torture facility during the Bosnian conflict of 1992-1995 by the Bosnian Serb Army and Serb paramilitaries against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia. VISEGRADSKA BANJA, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A young Bosnian Serbian couple celebrates their wedding in the restaurant at the Vilina Vlas Hotel on October 18, 2014. The Vilina Vlas Hotel was used as a rape and torture facility during the Bosnian conflict of 1992-1995 by the Bosnian Serb Army and Serb paramilitaries against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia15.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Sephardic Jews pray in the Ashkenazi Synagogue on shabbat on October 17, 2014. Jewish community leader Jakob Finci (second from right) placed the number of Jewish people left in Sarajevo at 700; part of the Shabbat service is in Ladino, an old dialect of Spanish that Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 took with them to their new homes across the Mediterranean world. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Sephardic Jews pray in the Ashkenazi Synagogue on shabbat on October 17, 2014. Jewish community leader Jakob Finci (second from right) placed the number of Jewish people left in Sarajevo at 700; part of the Shabbat service is in Ladino, an old dialect of Spanish that Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 took with them to their new homes across the Mediterranean world. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/DSC_7163.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Women pray on the upper level in the small section partitioned for them in the Wahhabi King Fahd Mosque, designed by Faruk Kapidzic, during Friday prayers and Herzegovina on October 10, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Women pray on the upper level in the small section partitioned for them in the Wahhabi King Fahd Mosque, designed by Faruk Kapidzic, during Friday prayers and Herzegovina on October 10, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia04.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Architect Ivan Straus, 86, one of the star architects of the former Yugoslavia responsible for designing the Holiday Inn Sarajevo as well as Sarajevo's Twin Towers, sits in his living room at the dining room table on October 13, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Architect Ivan Straus, 86, one of the star architects of the former Yugoslavia responsible for designing the Holiday Inn Sarajevo as well as Sarajevo's Twin Towers, sits in his living room at the dining room table on October 13, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia07.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Children ride the escalators for entertainment at the massive Saudi-owned Sarajevo City Center mall designed by architect Sead Golos on October 16, 2014. Alcohol is not served in any of the mall's restaurants due to the mall's Saudi ownership, to the objections of the architect. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Children ride the escalators for entertainment at the massive Saudi-owned Sarajevo City Center mall designed by architect Sead Golos on October 16, 2014. Alcohol is not served in any of the mall's restaurants due to the mall's Saudi ownership, to the objections of the architect. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia13.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Meho Zekic, 72, and "the butcher" play chess with oversized pieces at a park on October 23, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Meho Zekic, 72, and "the butcher" play chess with oversized pieces at a park on October 23, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia33.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Men in a VW bus drive across the river into the city center on a Friday night on October 17, 2014. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Men in a VW bus drive across the river into the city center on a Friday night on October 17, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia37.jpg ULCINJ, MONTENEGRO. The mother of bride Arnela Koluh, 23, of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, places a red scarf over her head as part of the traditional Bosniak wedding ceremony before entering the Pomerac Mosque on October 26, 2014. ULCINJ, MONTENEGRO. The mother of bride Arnela Koluh, 23, of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, places a red scarf over her head as part of the traditional Bosniak wedding ceremony before entering the Pomerac Mosque on October 26, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/bosnia01.jpg SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A view of the Miljacka River which runs through Sarajevo from the Austro-Hungarian Jajce Barracks on October 14, 2014. The Jajce Barracks were in use by the Yugoslav Army until 1992 and have fallen into a serious state of disrepair first due to the siege from 1992-1995 and then due to lack of care in the period after the war; at one point an investor thought to make a hotel out of the property but due to its unresolved status as military property, which falls under the jurisdiction of no other state agency, this did not happen. SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A view of the Miljacka River which runs through Sarajevo from the Austro-Hungarian Jajce Barracks on October 14, 2014. The Jajce Barracks were in use by the Yugoslav Army until 1992 and have fallen into a serious state of disrepair first due to the siege from 1992-1995 and then due to lack of care in the period after the war; at one point an investor thought to make a hotel out of the property but due to its unresolved status as military property, which falls under the jurisdiction of no other state agency, this did not happen. https://amandarivkin.com/prague-stag-nights monthly 0.8 https://amandarivkin.com/trumpistan monthly 0.8 https://amandarivkin.com/chicago-police-torture-survivors monthly 0.8 https://amandarivkin.com/sustenance:-chicago-+-the-food-chain monthly 0.8 https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance28.jpg DIXON, ILLINOIS. A statue of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan looking at kernels of corn in his hand stands outside his boyhood home on April 5, 2015. A plaque underneath the statue notes "Illinois is famous for its agricultural products; so it seems appropriate for him to be admiring the kernels of corn in his hand." DIXON, ILLINOIS. A statue of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan looking at kernels of corn in his hand stands outside his boyhood home on April 5, 2015. A plaque underneath the statue notes "Illinois is famous for its agricultural products; so it seems appropriate for him to be admiring the kernels of corn in his hand." https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance04.jpg MENDOTA, ILLINOIS. The lattice of the ladders and silos storing corn and soy at Northern Partners Cooperative on December 26, 2014. Corn and soy are the two main crops grown in the state of Illinois; corn and soy grown in the Illinois River Valley is shipped down the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River before being sent on barges to world markets through the ports of Louisiana. MENDOTA, ILLINOIS. The lattice of the ladders and silos storing corn and soy at Northern Partners Cooperative on December 26, 2014. Corn and soy are the two main crops grown in the state of Illinois; corn and soy grown in the Illinois River Valley is shipped down the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River before being sent on barges to world markets through the ports of Louisiana. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance33.jpg CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS. Cliff McConville, 52, moves the chicken houses each morning so the chickens can fertilize different sections of land at the Barrington Natural Farms in the Brunner Family Forest Preserve on July 30, 2015. McConville worked for years in downtown Chicago in the insurance industry, a one and a half hour commute each way, before discovering late in life he likes being around "happy animals," so after reading much about it, he began organic farming and works a few hours a day from home in the insurance business. CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS. Cliff McConville, 52, moves the chicken houses each morning so the chickens can fertilize different sections of land at the Barrington Natural Farms in the Brunner Family Forest Preserve on July 30, 2015. McConville worked for years in downtown Chicago in the insurance industry, a one and a half hour commute each way, before discovering late in life he likes being around "happy animals," so after reading much about it, he began organic farming and works a few hours a day from home in the insurance business. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance08.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Fred Daniels, 31, the site manager of Growing Home, a community-based agriculture project, adjusts the row cover inside one of the facility's hoop houses where a range of root and leaf vegetables are grown in the high crime Englewood neighborhood on December 22, 2014. Englewood is one of the neighborhoods most hard hit by violent crime year after year in Chicago but has not avoided the healthier food fashion, with the national organic grocery retail chain Whole Foods announcing that it will be opening a store in the neighborhood at 61st Street and Halsted. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Fred Daniels, 31, the site manager of Growing Home, a community-based agriculture project, adjusts the row cover inside one of the facility's hoop houses where a range of root and leaf vegetables are grown in the high crime Englewood neighborhood on December 22, 2014. Englewood is one of the neighborhoods most hard hit by violent crime year after year in Chicago but has not avoided the healthier food fashion, with the national organic grocery retail chain Whole Foods announcing that it will be opening a store in the neighborhood at 61st Street and Halsted. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance32.jpg CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS. A cornfield in the Brunner Family Forest Preserve on July 30, 2015. Corn and soy are the only crops a farmer can insure with the federal government in the state of Illinois. CARPENTERSVILLE, ILLINOIS. A cornfield in the Brunner Family Forest Preserve on July 30, 2015. Corn and soy are the only crops a farmer can insure with the federal government in the state of Illinois. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance06.jpg SPRING VALLEY, ILLINOIS. A barge sits on Illinois River to be loaded with corn and soy at the Cargill riverside facility on January 9, 2014. SPRING VALLEY, ILLINOIS. A barge sits on Illinois River to be loaded with corn and soy at the Cargill riverside facility on January 9, 2014. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance34.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Workers prepare for morning pick-ups at the loading dock of Cougle Wholesale Poultry and Meats in the Fulton Market meatpacking district of the West Loop on December 22, 2014. Cougle is a niche processor, processing poultry and meat on a scale that fits mid-market needs. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Workers prepare for morning pick-ups at the loading dock of Cougle Wholesale Poultry and Meats in the Fulton Market meatpacking district of the West Loop on December 22, 2014. Cougle is a niche processor, processing poultry and meat on a scale that fits mid-market needs. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance35.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Pedestrians walk by the Lyric Opera House where the James Beard Foundation Awards, "the Oscars for food," is being held on May 4, 2015. For the first time in the foundation's 25 year history, the awards were held in Chicago which has become a major "foodie" capital in the United States. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Pedestrians walk by the Lyric Opera House where the James Beard Foundation Awards, "the Oscars for food," is being held on May 4, 2015. For the first time in the foundation's 25 year history, the awards were held in Chicago which has become a major "foodie" capital in the United States. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance36.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Employees of Gourmet Gorilla pull baked chicken from an oven in the kitchen in the West Town neighborhood on February 12, 2015. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Employees of Gourmet Gorilla pull baked chicken from an oven in the kitchen in the West Town neighborhood on February 12, 2015. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance37.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A clerk sweeps near the entrance at the end of the produce section at Central Park Produce at 3604 W. Division in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on January 5, 2015. AT Central Park Produce, a gallon of milk is $3.79, a carton of eggs is $1.99, a pound of ground beef is $3.79, a can of tuna is 99 cents, and a loaf of bread is 99 cents. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A clerk sweeps near the entrance at the end of the produce section at Central Park Produce at 3604 W. Division in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on January 5, 2015. AT Central Park Produce, a gallon of milk is $3.79, a carton of eggs is $1.99, a pound of ground beef is $3.79, a can of tuna is 99 cents, and a loaf of bread is 99 cents. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance13.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Workers in the dairy section of the Save-A-Lot at 10700 S. Halsted in the Morgan Park neighborhood on January 2, 2015. At this Save-A-Lot location, a gallon of milk costs $3.29, a carton of eggs costs $2.49, a pound of ground beef costs $2.99, a can of tuna costs 79 cents and a loaf of bread costs $1.29. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Workers in the dairy section of the Save-A-Lot at 10700 S. Halsted in the Morgan Park neighborhood on January 2, 2015. At this Save-A-Lot location, a gallon of milk costs $3.29, a carton of eggs costs $2.49, a pound of ground beef costs $2.99, a can of tuna costs 79 cents and a loaf of bread costs $1.29. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance14.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Groceries behind bulletproof glass at We Serve Food Mart at 10857 S. Halsted in the Roseland neighborhood on January 2, 2015. At the We Serve Food Mart, a gallon of milk costs $3.49, a carton of eggs costs $1.49, a can of tuna costs $1.49 and a load of bread costs $1.25 and ground beef was unavailable at the time. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Groceries behind bulletproof glass at We Serve Food Mart at 10857 S. Halsted in the Roseland neighborhood on January 2, 2015. At the We Serve Food Mart, a gallon of milk costs $3.49, a carton of eggs costs $1.49, a can of tuna costs $1.49 and a load of bread costs $1.25 and ground beef was unavailable at the time. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance27.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Sara Hamdan of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) stands in front of Alot To Save Food at 1207 W. 63rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood on January 5, 2015. IMAN works with corner store owners in low income neighborhoods to provide customer and storeowner alike with fresh fruit and produce. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Sara Hamdan of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) stands in front of Alot To Save Food at 1207 W. 63rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood on January 5, 2015. IMAN works with corner store owners in low income neighborhoods to provide customer and storeowner alike with fresh fruit and produce. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance10.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. An administrative worker makes her way to her office passing workers in the food storage area of the four year old $30 million warehouse that is home to the Greater Chicago Food Depository's administrative offices and storage in the Archer Heights warehouse district near Midway Airport on December 23, 2014. One hundred and sixty people are employed by the organization which moves sixty seven million pounds of food annually to feed a significant portion of the 812,000 residents of Cook County who require food assistance. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. An administrative worker makes her way to her office passing workers in the food storage area of the four year old $30 million warehouse that is home to the Greater Chicago Food Depository's administrative offices and storage in the Archer Heights warehouse district near Midway Airport on December 23, 2014. One hundred and sixty people are employed by the organization which moves sixty seven million pounds of food annually to feed a significant portion of the 812,000 residents of Cook County who require food assistance. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance21.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. The Greater Chicago Food Depository runs the Healthy Kids Market which distributes nutritious foods and basic essentials to qualifying parents from the cafeteria of the Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts and Dual Language School in the Brighton Park neighborhood on January 15, 2015. One in six Chicagoans requires food assistance. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. The Greater Chicago Food Depository runs the Healthy Kids Market which distributes nutritious foods and basic essentials to qualifying parents from the cafeteria of the Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts and Dual Language School in the Brighton Park neighborhood on January 15, 2015. One in six Chicagoans requires food assistance. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance39.jpg URBANA, ILLINOIS. Alex Warner, 10, of Rantoul, Illinois waits to show his angus cow "Little Rascal" at the Champaign County Fair on July 30, 2015. Summer is county fair season and in Illinois, that means food, 4H, and the midway; Warner's angus cow placed first in the lightweight class of angus cow. URBANA, ILLINOIS. Alex Warner, 10, of Rantoul, Illinois waits to show his angus cow "Little Rascal" at the Champaign County Fair on July 30, 2015. Summer is county fair season and in Illinois, that means food, 4H, and the midway; Warner's angus cow placed first in the lightweight class of angus cow. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance24.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Matthew Peters, 17, reflected in a goldfish basin while examining a a plant he grew in the aguaponics lab at Lane Tech High School on March 19, 2015. Lane Tech, a Chicago Public High School, has cultivated the program with support from the Century Foundation and the school's alumni association as well as donations from Brew and Grow and Home Depot. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Matthew Peters, 17, reflected in a goldfish basin while examining a a plant he grew in the aguaponics lab at Lane Tech High School on March 19, 2015. Lane Tech, a Chicago Public High School, has cultivated the program with support from the Century Foundation and the school's alumni association as well as donations from Brew and Grow and Home Depot. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance18.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Fourth graders in Ms. Ramirez's class pass around a cabbage from the family-owned DeGroot Farms at the Nathanael Greene Elementary School in the McKinley Park neighborhood on December 19, 2014. DeGroot Farms sells to Aramark which in turn has a contract to serve Chicago Public Schools. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Fourth graders in Ms. Ramirez's class pass around a cabbage from the family-owned DeGroot Farms at the Nathanael Greene Elementary School in the McKinley Park neighborhood on December 19, 2014. DeGroot Farms sells to Aramark which in turn has a contract to serve Chicago Public Schools. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/rivkin_sustenance20.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Students at the Galapagos School help design a healthy school lunch that meets various federal government nutritional and budgetary criteria with representatives from Gourmet Gorilla during an interactive presentation on building healthy school lunches at their school in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on February 12, 2015. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Students at the Galapagos School help design a healthy school lunch that meets various federal government nutritional and budgetary criteria with representatives from Gourmet Gorilla during an interactive presentation on building healthy school lunches at their school in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on February 12, 2015. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance20.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Fifth graders in Ms. Heidy's class enjoy their school lunch in the cafeteria at the Nathanael Greene Elementary School in the McKinley Park neighborhood on December 19, 2014. All but one student in Ms. Heidy's class receives food assistance in the form of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP, which includes a free lunch. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Fifth graders in Ms. Heidy's class enjoy their school lunch in the cafeteria at the Nathanael Greene Elementary School in the McKinley Park neighborhood on December 19, 2014. All but one student in Ms. Heidy's class receives food assistance in the form of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP, which includes a free lunch. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance23.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A student at the Galapagos School, a charter school, walks home with half a melon left at the end of an interactive presentation on building healthy school lunches in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois on February 12, 2015. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A student at the Galapagos School, a charter school, walks home with half a melon left at the end of an interactive presentation on building healthy school lunches in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois on February 12, 2015. https://cdn.neonsky.app/4bd5ebfae2643/images/sustenance40.jpg CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Melody Miller of St. Paul, Minnesota cooks jerk chicken and turkey legs over the grill during the back-to-school Bud Biliken Day Parade and Picnic, an annual tradition on the South Side, in Washington Park on August 9, 2015. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Melody Miller of St. Paul, Minnesota cooks jerk chicken and turkey legs over the grill during the back-to-school Bud Biliken Day Parade and Picnic, an annual tradition on the South Side, in Washington Park on August 9, 2015. https://amandarivkin.com/portraits monthly 0.8 https://amandarivkin.com/tearsheets monthly 0.8