Those who wish the Grand Haydarpaşa train station to be renovated and kept as a train station, pls sign the petition.

WE DO NOT NEED AN OTHER SUPERMARKET

http://www.change.org/petitions/haydarpaşa-garı-gar-olarak-kalsın-haydarpasaport

INFORM AND ENCOURAGE YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THIS "SAVE OUR GAR" CAMPAIGN

How tragic, I see it´s on the World Monuments Fund watch list. What a tragedy its destruction would be. Good luck saving it. We destroyed Penn Station in the early 60´s.

How tragic, I see it´s on the World Monuments Fund watch list. What a tragedy its destruction would be. Good luck saving it. We destroyed Penn Station in the early 60´s.

An accidental fire ?    I doubt it !

As a person traveling around Turkey giving engineering service to a number of so-called giant industrial facilities, you can have my word for it - it might be a perfectly innocent accident. I was electrocuted, fell from scaffoldings and hurt myself on countless occassions just because some Mr. Mehmet had not done his job properly.

We are the champions of procrastination. You can´t get anything done properly in this country and you must also forget about getting it done in time. That roof might have caught fire just because the whole organization behind it did not care even a bit about the historical value of the building from the very beginning.

I think a dragon attacked the building in darkness. That really makes sense.

Do not rely on Mr. Mehmets´ expertise to provide your full safety.

Make sure of your own safety yourself, before you start your work.

Agree! there are at least 4 AVM building projects on the E5 Asian side at the moment.

We need good public transport, sports facilities (a swimming pool or ice rink anyone??) not more shops.

DESTROYING İSTANBUL

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/destroying-istanbul/

In item (1) of this thread, I had given -to those interested - the link to a petition asking authorities to leave a precious landmark of İstanbul -Haydarpaşa train station - in its original form and function. My request was that you all sign the petition and inform your friends as well, so that more people could be reached.

Below is a letter from the originator of the petition.

Haydarpaşa´nın Gar Olarak İşlevini Sürdürmesini İsteyen Çok Değerli Dostlar; 

Haydarpaşa´nın gar olarak işlevini sürdürmesine engel olmak isteyen yetkilileri yapacakları bu yanlıştan döndürmek amacı ile başlattığım kampanyaya verdiğiniz değerli desteğinize çok teşekkür ediyorum.

Bugün ulaştığımız imza sayısı 12.000´e yaklaştı. İmza sayımız ne kadar çok olursa, Haydarpaşa´nın işlevini değiştirmek isteyenlerin bu kararlarından geri dönmelerini sağlayabileceğimize inanıyorum. Çünkü binlerce kişinin itirazına rağmen bu yalnışı yaparlarsa gelecek nesillere karşı işleyecekleri günahın hesabını veremeyeceklerdir. Sizden ricam, çevrenizde bu kampanyayı duymayanlara duyurarak kısa bir sürede imza sayısını ikiye katlanmasını sağlamak.

Bunun için aşağıdaki linki Facebook, Twitter gibi sosyal medya hesaplarınızda paylaşabilir ya da e-posta yoluyla çevrenize iletebilirsiniz.

http://bit.ly/haydarpasaport

Değerli desteğinize tekrar teşekkür eder, saygı ve sevgilerimi sunarım. 

Prof. Dr. Zerrin BAYRAKDAR

For those who can not understand Turkish, she informs that the petition has been signed by over 12000 people so far, thanks all participants - and request a second effort from all to increase the number of signature to at least, to 24 000.