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"This man was speaking of the mahalle as a place where the 'backward' tendencies were being institutionalised."
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The place to gauge the transformation, however, is not in parliament but on the street - in the mahalle.
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"Originally my quotation for this comes from a man who was against the Orientalist elements in mahalle life - people with loose trousers lounging in coffeehouses with their hubble bubble," he said when I met him at his home in Istanbul.
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Toprak's findings also appeared to give credence to a controversial concept: mahalle baskisi, or "neighbourhood pressure".
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