#  Defender of Urban Gardens 

 





April 15, 2016

 

 

Aleksandar Sopov, PhD candidate in the joint program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the History Department, helped save Istanbul green spaces, but has broader hopes. "I had to save them," he says. “When those public places are erased, it moves people into arenas where demagoguery can take place." [Read more of his story in the Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/defender-of-urban-gardens/).

   ![Aleksandar Sopov](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/cmes/files/032516_sopov_0152_605.jpg?itok=fJlqI4Wz) 

 

 Photo: Harvard Public Affairs and Communications/Rose Lincoln



 

 

 



 

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