Like Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aborted
plan to raze Gezi Park in Taksim Square and put up a shopping mall in the style
of an Ottoman military barracks.
The bridge project has divided the city
largely along socioeconomic lines: The city’s liberal elite has strongly backed
the preservation of its Ottoman-era core, while the mostly poorer Islamists
have tended to welcome this sweeping away of the past.
-Joshua Hammer
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