Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Turkey to Build Its Own 'Panama Canal' - WSJ.com

"Turkey to Build Its Own 'Panama Canal'

BY MARC CHAMPION

ISTANBUL—Turkey will build a new canal connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean, parallel to the Bosphorus strait, in order to cut traffic in one of the world's busiest and most urban shipping lanes, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday."

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