Regional role: Ambition puts city on front foot
By Shawn Donnan in Istanbul
In 2009, when he introduced his government’s ambitions to turn Istanbul into an international financial centre, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, laid out a vision for the city to take what he clearly thought was its rightful place in the world.
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