Erdogan, Istanbul rival lock horns over 'crazy canal'

Erdogan, Istanbul rival lock horns over 'crazy canal' https://ift.tt/39DYj4u January 01, 2020 at 09:21AM Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/27ryfmF

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dream project of building a canal in Istanbul to rival those at Suez and Panama has turned into a political showdown with the city's new mayor. Ekrem Imamoglu, who won a shock victory for the opposition in 2019 to become mayor of Turkey's largest city, says the 75 billion lira ($12.6 billion) canal is wasteful, environmentally destructive and could even increase the earthquake risk. "Canal Istanbul is a criminal project," he tweeted in December as he launched an "Either Canal or Istanbul" campaign and withdrew from a construction protocol signed by the previous mayor.

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