Turkey’s prime minister envisions building a second waterway through Istanbul, just west of the existing Bosphorus Strait.
Turkey’s bold plan to build a canal to divert shipping from the heavily congested Bosporus Strait will be put to the test after the country’s general election on June 12.
The 31-mile long waterway linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, the gateway to the Mediterranean, was one of several mega projects proposed by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the election campaign.
But there is skepticism over how many of the projects will survive after the election.