In Istanbul’s Heart, Leader’s Obsession, Perhaps Achilles’ Heel
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: June 7, 2013
ISTANBUL — On a normal day, Taksim Square is a mess of buses and crowds, a tangle of plazas, streets, shops and taxi horns. Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is determined to clean it up and make it into a pedestrian zone, with a new mall, mosque and tunnels for traffic to move underground.
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