"Ankara Stories: Everything stops still for Ataturk and coffee cups
By Meriel Beattie
21 November 2004
It's a stunning transformation. At 9.04am, Ankara's ugly four-way junction at Kizilay is, as usual, manic. Beeping yellow taxis and pushy blue minibuses cut each other up. Businessmen, students, street hawkers and shoppers surge off the kerb as soon as the lights change. When I join my friend near a half-hearted fountain, I can barely hear her above the noise."
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