[sustran] Re: Fwd: [UTSG] Call for action: Istanbul is being dismissed from the World Heritage List!

[Cornie Huizenga]

Hi Sybel,

Can you give some additional information on this?

Cornie

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Paul Barter <peebeebarter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Transport projects appear to be threatening historic central Istanbul and
> its World Heritage Site status, if the email below is accurate. Does anyone
> know more?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eda Beyazit <ebeyazit at gmail.com>
> Date: 7 July 2010 18:41
> Subject: [UTSG] Call for action: Istanbul is being dismissed from the World
> Heritage List!
> To: UTSG at jiscmail.ac.uk
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is an urgent call for acting against the removal of Istanbul from the
> UNESCO "World Heritage List".
> UNESCO proposes the suspension of the Halic (Golden Horn) Metro Bridge and
> the Road Tunnel (not the Marmaray which is a rail tunnel) construction
> as important
> conditions for securing the city’s position in the World Heritage List.
> These projects will cause an increased use of motor vehicles in the
> Historical Peninsula and are against the suggestions of the Transport
> Master
> Plan.
> The decisions made by local and central authorities are not only against
> national and international law, but they are also not legitimate as they
> are
> not accepted/approved by the public!
> Please go to http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/istanbul-sos.html to
> support this cause.
> More information is available on http://istanbulsos.wordpress.com/
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Eda
>
> -------------------------------
> Istanbul, which is listed as one of the 890 World Heritage Sites for its
> outstanding universal values and has been awarded as the 2010 European
> Capital of Culture, is now under the threat of being completely removed
> from
> the World Heritage List.
>
> The World Heritage Committee will come to a decision about Istanbul’s
> situation at their annual meeting on 25 July-3 August 2010 and unless good
> progress is achieved on the issues below, which have been on the agenda
> since 2003 and repeated on June 2010 Draft Decision of World Heritage
> Committee, UNESCO will first change Istanbul’s situation to the “World
> Heritage in Danger” and will dismiss the city from the World Heritage List
> in 2011.
>
> The conditions are:
> 1. Abandon the Halic (Golden Horn) Metro Bridge project,
> 2. Stop the implementations of Regeneration Law 5366,
> 3. Share information about the restoration projects of the Historic City
> walls,
> 4. Abandon the tunnel project which would let 75.000 vehicles into the
> Historic Peninsula everyday,
> 5. Save the wooden houses,
> 6. Complete the Site Management Plan for the protection of the Historic
> Peninsula.
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