Mosque Dream Seen at Heart of Turkey Protests
Ed Ou for The New York Times
The architect Ahmet Vefik Alp with a model of a mosque that he designed to be built in Taksim Square in Istanbul.
By TIM ARANGO
ISTANBUL — Three weeks before street protests spread across Turkey, the architect Ahmet Vefik Alp traveled to Sunnylands, the famous Southern California retreat for heads of state, where he presented his blueprint for a project in Istanbul’s Taksim Square that has been the dream of Turkey’s Islamist movement for decades: a large mosque that would honor the country’s Muslim and Ottoman heritage.
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