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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Turkey Plans New Canal for Istanbul

"Turkey Plans New Canal for Istanbul
Associated Press

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey unveiled a plan to build a new waterway to the Black Sea, promising that the tanker-clogged Bosporus through Istanbul would soon be used for sports and boat trips.
By SEBNEM ARSU

ISTANBUL — Heating up the campaign for the coming parliamentary elections, Turkey’s governing party on Wednesday unveiled a proposal to build a canal parallel to Istanbul’s Bosporus that would be longer than either the Panama or Suez canals. "

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