Istanbul University ile ilgili hikayeler

Following the arrest of opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, Turkey is undergoing weeks of political protests that are shaking up the country's political landscape.

With days left until confirmation of his presidential bid, Istanbul Mayor and President Erdoğan's key rival Ekrem İmamoğlu has been detained with dozens of others. Just a day earlier, he was effectively barred from running as a candidate.

In the face of the potential destruction of the Botanical Garden founded by the Jewish German scientists Alfred Heilbronn and Leon Brauner, Dilşad Aladağ and Eda Aslan ask, “Is it possible to make space for the garden in urban memory?” This question leads them to a project centered around Alfred Heilbronn Botanical Garden and the plant-life established there entitled “The Garden of (not) Forgetting” and an exhibition that could be seen in Depo until June 6th. In this piece, you will read the story of “The Garden of (not) Forgetting” and a side story, brought to life from the archives, of a Turkish and a German women scientist, whose stories are connected by two houses they both lived, one in Istanbul and the other in Münster, that feels like the script of a Hollywood movie.