aster and has now turned its attention
to vulnerable housing stock – half the
city’s 4m homes – beginning a demolition programme this month.
The sense of upheaval is hardly new
for this ancient place. Its conquest at
the hands of Sultan Mehmet II more
than...
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aster and has now turned its attention
to vulnerable housing stock – half the
city’s 4m homes – beginning a demolition programme this month.
The sense of upheaval is hardly new
for this ancient place. Its conquest at
the hands of Sultan Mehmet II more
than half a millennium ago made the
capital of the once mighty Byzantine
empire into the stronghold of its Ottoman successor.
But much is at stake in this latest
transformation. Backers of the
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location between Europe and Asia.
Istanbul has put in bids for both the
2020 summer Olympics and the European football championships that
same year, and, though current rules
prevent it from hosting two such
events in a single year, it is among
the favourites for both. Closer to
home, it is also renewing itself on the
most basic level.
With a 2 per cent risk of a major
earthquake in any given year, the city
is rebuilding and revamping schools
and hospitals at risk from such a disfor 7,000 years,” says Temel Kotil,
chief executive
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