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Güneslitepe Primary School (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7845)
Turkey,
Istanbul
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks
We estimate 6 student(s) from 8 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Bagcilar is a working class suburban district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the European side of the city, between the two major ring roads, the TEM and the E5.
Bagcilar is now populated by recent immigrants from Anatolia, mostly young families, mostly poor, with many children. These people are struggling to survive in narrow streets of the most basic, undecorated buildings. There is little infrastructure to support the huge population, no parks, cinemas, and very few cultural or social amenities of any kind. Except one high profile white elephant: there are few trees in Bagcilar, but there is an Olympic Sports Complex. Also Bagcilar has been in the news recently as families in the area are failing to send girls to school.
The local council is now trying to invest in parks, cafes and other amenities but the area is so full that there is little space. Bagcilar is a right-wing stronghold.
Bagcilar also houses a great deal of industry, particularly light engineering, textiles, printing (Bagcilar is home to all the biggest of Turkey's newspapers and TV channels), a huge wholesale market for dry goods, a large second-hand car market, and many trucking companies, particularly along the Gunesli link road from the TEM motorway to Istanbul airport. A metro is being built which it is hoped will ease the constant stream of slowly circulating traffic.
Project Description: The Silk Road was series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West. We created this project for students age group is 8-15 but the main team has 4 members who organize all workshops. The chosen language is English. The main objective of the project is making a research about the Silk Road and the historical landmarks on the road, to provide an opportunity to analize landmarks and network between cultures in different countries on the route of the Silk Road.