Urban Transformation like a Roman

November 2022 – June 2023
Turgutreis District/MERSİN

Urban Transformation like a Roman Project aims to prevent the urban transformation project planned to be carried out in the Turgutreis Neighbourhood, where Roma people are densely populated, to be realized without considering their culture and lifestyle, and to take a counter-stance.

In this scope, under the management of Prof. Dr Nurseren Tor of MEU, Faculty of Fine Arts, large-scale paintings reflecting the Roma culture will be displayed in various parts of the neighbourhood and this process will be supported with various music, theatre, photography and performance activities. The Roma Theatre Group from Bandırma will perform a theatre play about urban transformation in the neighbourhood, the Mersin Romany Orchestra will give a concert, and the Roma people will be able to tell about their neighbourhoods from their own eyes through a photography workshop to be held with women and children. The project will be supported by a social media campaign, and a special video will be produced for the campaign. The project will end with a panel discussion and celebrations in the neighbourhood.

Mediterranean Roma Associations Federation

Mediterranean Roma Associations Federation is a non-governmental organization established in 2008 with 5 associations coming together in order to solve the problems of Roma people in various fields and to preserve and transfer Roma culture to future generations. Since the day it was founded, the Federation has done a lot of work to solve the problems of the Roma in cooperation with local, national and international authorities, and has assumed the role of advocacy for the rights of the Roma on many platforms. Our federation’s fields of activity are as follows;

Activities supporting Roma people in the fields of eductaion, employment, housing, health and access to rights
Advocacy activities for the determination of Roma policies in Turkey through the Turkish Roma Rights Forum.

AKROMFED has carried out many projects in these fields with the grants it has won from national and international grant programs and has gained extensive experience in these fields.

This page is published on 19 January 2023.