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Not Just a Place: Emotional Belonging and Class Distinction in Nişantaşı-Istanbul

Zeynep Ceylan Gezer Çatalbaş, Ipek Akpinar

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 82-98 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.841

This paper explores how residents of the historic Nişantaşı neighborhood in Istanbul have experienced, remembered, and narrated the area throughout Turkey’s modern urban history. Drawing on in-depth interviews and archival materials from newspapers and magazines, it interprets these sources as subjective memory rather than objec