Pasha

“Pasha” is the portrayal of Tevfik Pasha Mansion, which is one of the important buildings in the area known as Oteller Street in Izmir Basmane and which used to belong to the Tevfik Pasha Family about a century ago. Over time, it was converted to a hotel, named the Sadık Akseki Hotel, and finally the Pasha Mansion Hotel which was evacuated in September 2022. In its final state, it became a place occupied by immigrants who sought hope in Europe via the Aegean Sea, so its rooms were arranged as wards and the public areas were commonly shared by a bed fee. Although the conversion of old Izmir houses into cheap accommodation in order to make easy money is frequently criticized for harming Basmane's history and identity, the fact that the hotel, now emptied by the gentrification project, was once a place where hundreds of people curled up in a corner and burried their hopes into pillows, will be restored into an insincere cold place. "The curtain that takes off as the wind blows shows the inside of the mansion, the rooms are empty. A quilt can not be a cloud, but the clouds are the quilts over us."

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