Fetva Yokuşu. No:26, 34134 Fatih | Another Silhouette Fakery

Mavi Boncuk | 

Fetva Yokuşu. No:26, 34134 Fatih | Another Silhouette Fakery

The building, which was built for the " İlim Yayma Vakfı | Spreading  Science Foundation" in the Demirtaş neighborhood of the historical Süleymaniye district and planned to be finished in 2024, drew criticism on the grounds that it spoiled the silhouette of the Süleymaniye Mosque.

Fatih Municipality made the following statement:

"The following is the explanation about the construction being made on 494 block 1 parcel in Sulaymaniyah, which came to the agenda in social media;

1-) In the archive analysis, a 7-storey legal building with 3 basement floors + ground floor + 3 normal floors is seen in the building occupancy permit issued in 1991 in the mentioned place.

2-) In 2012, according to the architectural project prepared in accordance with the construction conditions determined by the Historic Peninsula Conservation Implementation Plan and approved by the Conservation Board on 18.07.2019, with the license given on 03.06.2021, a 6-storey building with basement + ground floor + 2 normal floors. has been licensed.

3-) As a result, the construction permit issued in 2021 decreased the number of floors by 1 floor compared to the old inhabited building, and the height of the eaves level decreased by 1,50 meters.

International news agency Reuters shared with its worldwide subscribers the latest developments regarding the 16:9 skyscraper in Zeytinburnu, which distorted the historical silhouette of Istanbul and which the Istanbul 4th Administrative Court decided to demolish.

The photograph signed by Murad Sezer,[1] which was presented with the news, also drew attention. In the photograph that Sezer took from the Bosphorus Bridge (possibly with a high powered telephoto lens. Mavi Boncuk), the 16:9 skyscraper and the Süleymaniye Mosque entered the same square.

In fact, this destruction in the city started 80 years ago, not ten years ago. The new regime imported an architect from France for the modernization of Istanbul, which was dominated by an Islamic architecture. Architect Henri Prost, who started with the drawings of Hagia Sophia, had more than 200 mosques, countless tombs, madrasahs, baths and fountains demolished on Vatan, Millet, Fevzipaşa and Ordu Avenues. Deliberately, he made the Golden Horn an industrial area and opened Okmeydanı to a slum. Subsequently, the rent increased and did not catch on again...

[1] Murad Sezer is a Pulitzer Prize-winner photojournalist and Reuters chief photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. Sezer was born in Germany and moved to Istanbul as a child.

Murad joined Reuters in 2009 as a chief photographer based in Istanbul. He covers domestic and international developments in and around Turkey. He is responsible for the photo coverage in Turkey as well as managing staff and freelancer photographers. He has been working for the international news agencies for more than 20 years. In fact, Murad was part of the Associated Press team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2005. He covered conflicts, natural disasters, politics in Europe and in the Middle East. He also covered multiple major sports events such as Summer and Winter Olympics, Soccer World Cup.

Sezer has a journalism B.A. from Istanbul University. He built a career as a sports photographer in the Turkish media 10 years before he joined Associated Press in 1996. He was part of Associated Press team that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2005 with his photo of US Marines praying over a Marine killed while fighting insurgent strongholds in Fallujah (other people from the team were Bilal Hussein, Karim Kadim, Brennan Linsley, Jim MacMillan, Samir Mizban, Khalid Mohammed, John B. Moore, Muhammad Muheisen, Anja Niedringhaus and Mohammed Uraibi).