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Süleymaniye Mahallesi, Fetva Yokuş. 41, Fatih, Istanbul.
The botanical garden in Fatih was established above the Galata Bridge in historic Stambul in the 1930s. This was carried out at the suggestion of the exiled botanist Alfred Heilbronn.
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Aladağ, Dilşad, and Eda Aslan. “The Garden of (not) Forgetting, The Memory of Place and the Topography of Destruction.” 2018, Academia, https://www.academia.edu/41789284/The_Garden_of_not_Forgetting_The_Memory_of_Place_and_the_Topography_of_Destruction. Accessed 21 March 2021.
Aladağ, Dilşad, and Eda Aslan. Bir Yerin izinde Pek Çok Yer. Manifold, 2021.
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Röhrs, Christine-Felice, and Linda Say. “Botanischer Garten in Istanbul:. Vermächtnis eines jüdischen Exilanten in Gefahr.” Tagesspiegel, 7 June 2019, https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/botanischer-garten-in-istanbul-vermaechtnis-eines-juedischen-exilanten-in-gefahr/24434672.html. Accessed 7 October 2020.
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My deepest thanks go to Dilşad Aladağ and Eda Aslan for sharing their knowledge on Alfred Heilbronn Botanical Garden and giving permission to reproduce their work The Garden of (not) Forgetting.
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The exiled biologist and photographer Leonore Kosswig was one of the pioneering women researchers travelling alone in the 1950s and exploring customs and ways of life in Turkey and Iraq.
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The house designed by the Swiss-Austrian architect Ernst Egli for the engineer Ragip Devres in Istanbul Bebek left its mark on the Turkish villa landscape.
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