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A recent parliamentary inquiry has revealed that foreign companies to date have purchased 791,370 square meters of real estate near the planned construction site of the controversial Kanal Istanbul project.
Kanal Istanbul, which seeks to carve out an artificial shipping canal on the outskirts of the European side of Istanbul in order to alleviate traffic from the Bosphorus strait and stimulate real estate interest in area, has been referred by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as his “crazy project.” Environmentalists and experts have warned that the ambitious project would create for disastrous environmental consequences.
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