Too much success? With eye on global stage, Istanbul strains with ambition - and chaos
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press
ISTANBUL — On a moonlit night in the backstreets of Beyoglu, one of Istanbul's oldest districts, the worn facades and sharp-angled shadows recall the mournful character of the city that Nobel-prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk described in a memoir.
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