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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Istanbul: A straining metropolis dreams big

Istanbul: A straining metropolis dreams big

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press – 24 minutes ago

ISTANBUL (AP) — On a moonlit night in the backstreets of Beyoglu, one of Istanbul's oldest districts, the worn facades and sharp-angled shadows recall the mournful character of the city that Nobel-prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk described in a memoir.

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