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Controversy Growing in Turkey Over Erdogan's Massive Canal Project

Dorian Jones

   ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's project to provide
   an alternative route to the Bosporus waterway is becoming increasingly
   mired in controversy.

   Erdogan is presenting his "Canal Istanbul" initiative as preserving
   Istanbul, but environmental and financial concerns are escalating over
   the grandiose scheme, dubbed as the construction project of the decade.

   In freezing rain, thousands of people in Istanbul queued for hours to
   sign a petition protesting Erdogan's canal plan.

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