Yuval Ben-Ami
Last Metro to Taksim, part 4: The expedition
It's time to take a look around and see what's happening off the square, way off the square. Photography by May Castelnuovo. Click here for the full series. ISTANBUL/BURSA, Turkey -- On the day we arrived, the metro station at Taksim Square was closed. The following day was a Monday. We took the train into town expecting to alight at least one station north of the square. To our surprise, the train went all the way to Taksim. The station was open and we emerged from it with our first sense of normality. It wasn't the normal kind of normality. For one, there…
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