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This one is from Izmir's "maïdan" (same word and same meaning as in hindi).
A small victory from local associations against a highway being built between the sea and the city...
As the work of landfill had started already, they made a "green" (no cricket players yet!), which is favored by students to play guitar, drink turkish beer... And date !
(Unalike other Islam countries, turks joined mainstream Islam with the right to drink alcoholic beverages as a concession in a meeting alike the Nicaea's one for christians!)

Even if "revolutionaries", those young people still abide by old lore and young couples are seldom seen... But as a "bunch" or as here, two by two, it doesn't seems too suspect !
The romantic sunset is always marred by several huge container cargo ships, as Izmir was already a high level trade port in neolithic times :-)



"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 07:55:43 AM EST
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Gee... I was re-reading myself and thought I was getting as tedious as the National Geographic... :-) < Auto snark>

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 07:59:06 AM EST
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Blame the flu ...
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 08:26:48 AM EST
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