‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall

In Berlin, a small two-storey treehouse stands in no man's land next to the Berlin Wall—built in nineteen eighty-three by Osman Kalin, a Turkish guest worker, on a traffic island where he grew onions, garlic, and cucumbers. Per The Guardian, supporters of the structure fear it could be torn down as a safety hazard, and they want to preserve it as a memorial to postwar foreign laborers and to honor its Turkish creator. What began as one man's patch of earth in a divided city has become what supporters call a symbol of resistance—a rare physical reminder of Cold War Berlin.

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