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Garbage Collector a Rare Bird in Turkey

Posted on October 15, 2008

When I first moved to Istanbul, I asked the friend I was staying with where I could take out the trash. Just leave it in that pile on the curb, she said. Someone will come pick it up. Someone did, and although my current street has a dumpster on it, every neighborhood seems to have its own unofficially designated trash heaps. I've seen people tote their garbage bags a couple of blocks just to deposit them on a specific corner, and eventually, whether by city sanitation workers or scavengers, the trash generally gets carried away. (Although usually not before the stray dogs and ca... ...

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