{"id":107,"date":"2010-04-11T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/2010\/04\/11\/world-roma-day\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T15:22:00","slug":"world-roma-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/2010\/world-roma-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Roma Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balat, Thursday 8 April<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/2132c-roman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458262457522294210\" style=\"cursor:pointer;float:right;height:240px;margin:0 0 10px 10px;width:320px\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/2132c-roman.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe World Roma Day festivities have started at the shore of the Golden Horn (<i>Hali\u00e7<\/i>) strait. Listen to the recording:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-107-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/roma.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/roma.mp3\">https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1427\/2018\/08\/roma.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The echoing <i>ezan<\/i> faintly heard in the begining of the recording made the festival pause for a few minutes. But soon the voices of the m\u00fcezzins are no longer heard and the soundsystem is switched on.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00c7anakkale Lapseki Roman orchestra is warming up and doing soundcheck. The clarinetist H\u00fcsn\u00fc \u015eenlendirici stolls on the stage and soon the air fills with the sound of Roma music. The evening continues with more and more performers, and the people are dancing and enjoying themseves despite the cooling evening weather. Compelled to leave the spot due to not just high but ear piercing decibel levels I fled to a cafe near by and enjoyed the music through the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The announcer thanked the local MP and city authority for organizing the event. Unfortunately the city authorities will also bulldoze and rebuilt the Balat and neighboring Fener districts in very near future as they are to attract more tourists to the detriment of local residents. These kind of gentrification projects are familiar to the former Sulukule residents as well. A Roma neighbourhood like Balat, that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balat, Thursday 8 April The World Roma Day festivities have started at the shore of the Golden Horn (Hali\u00e7) strait. Listen to the recording: The echoing ezan faintly heard in the begining of the recording made the festival pause for a few minutes. But soon the voices of the m\u00fcezzins are no longer heard and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/2010\/world-roma-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Roma Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6796,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-english","category-sesli-gunluk-istanbul","tag-balat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/mlkyto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}