Kuzguncuk is a small, popular village in Istanbul near the Bosphorus. According to most official and unofficial written andoral documents, Kuzguncuk was a village of mostly Jews, Greeks, and Armenians rather than Muslim Turks up until the mid-twentieth century. In other words, the neighborhood is usually describedby residents and in local and official discourses as a village of peace, harmony,and tolerance. These narratives create the identity of Kuzguncuk as a happy, peaceful and harmonic villa ...