SALT GALATA is a private institution sponsored by Garanti Bank whose main focus is the research and construction of archives on culture, politics, design, architecture, economics and the social history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. A space for research, criticism and debate. Hundreds of documents are scanned, photographed, cataloged and archived and serve as a starting point for the communication programs and exhibitions open to the public. Salt Galata is installed in a building in the neighborhood of Beyolu, built between 1850 and 1860, and contains valluable recordss of the conflict and of the slaughter of the Armenians, as well as the documentation of the architecture of the last 100 years/Photo: Patricia Rousseaux