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The Grand Turk
Disquiet over Turkish PM's pharaonic megaprojects
2014-03-29
[Al Ahram] Osman Erkov's farm sits pretty in a seaside village near Istanbul, but soon it will make way for one of Turkey's many new megaprojects, billed the "world's biggest airport".

"Look how beautiful it is, this landscape," said the dairy farmer, looking across the Black Sea village of Yenikoy on the rural fringes of the sprawling megacity of over 15 million people.
I s'pose it gives them something to do with all the money Saudi Arabia is giving them...
"Well, all that will disappear," he said, gazing at the future site of Istanbul's third airport, one of many grand projects of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet...
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