"Turkey: Financial Center Next Stage in Istanbul’s Overdevelopment
June 9, 2011 - 12:32pm, by Justin Vela
In the run-up to Turkey’s June 12 parliamentary elections, Turkish newspapers have been full of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “crazy” plans for massive infrastructure projects. Concrete will change everything. Or so the message goes. But for many Turks, plans for a financial district that would put Istanbul on a par with London, Dubai and Shanghai raise the question of how much “craziness” this overdeveloped city of 12.6 million people can actually bear. "
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