This photo was taken by Ruth Puig-Peiró, a research officer in the PSSRU, Social Policy Department. This photo was taken in Istanbul on 18 July 2009.

'I took this photo while I was waiting for a drink in the bar of the club. I liked the contrast captured in the image; I think it shows the duality in which the Turkish society lives, the tradition and the new and opposite ways of living..'

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