Turkey opened a third bridge connecting Istanbul’s Asian and European sides on Friday. The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge stretches across the Bosphorus Strait, which flows between the two continents. The ...
The Bosphorus Bridge connects Europe and Asia at Istanbul but costs just 36p to cross. Renamed Martyrs' Bridge in July 2016 after an attempted coup in Turkey when a Turkish army faction occupied the ...
In a recent blog post, I suggested Turkey is turning into a "constructocracy," with an economy driven by the construction sector and ruled by a government that never met a large infrastructure or ...