7 days a week, this lady sells little paper plates of bird seed.
She makes a few Turkish Lira per sale.
Turkish Lira trades at roughly 3 per 1 U.S. Dollar.
Rent in Istanbul has doubled, almost tripled in the past decade.
This lady's stall is in a great location.
Just up the hill from the Eminonu ferry docks.
Very close to the Galata Bridge.
Just outside the New Mosque.
Right on the way to the Egyptian (Spice) Market.
Some neighborhood folks told me she's about 100 years old.
The things she's seen in Istanbul in the past century.
And just how does she make rent?
In a city that is at once rapidly westernizing.
Yet challenged by political leaders who want to introduce religion into the secular republic created by Ataturk.
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