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“A European island.” That’s how Hürriyet describes the project to dig a canal 150 metres wide between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara in order to unclog the Bosphorus, which has become saturated with shipping. This “crazy project”, presented on April 27 and to be completed by 2023, the centennial of the Turkish Republic, would transform one of the European parts of Istanbul into an island. The newspaper questions the feasibility of the project, which is best viewed, it believes, in the context of the legislative elections coming up on 12 June. For its part, Taraf welcomes an initiative that indicates the dynamism of Turkey but stresses the gap between the power suggested by such an ambitious project and the weakness shown by Turkey on other issues, such as the Kurdish question.
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