Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 19

9-May-2011

TURKEY

Turkey Plans Construction Of Canal Connecting Black And Marmara Seas

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that his government will move ahead with a plan to build a canal connecting the Black and Marmara seas as a means to reduce maritime traffic in the busy Bosporus strait. Mr Erdogan, who first mooted the idea last October (MEES, 18 October 2010), announced on 27 April that a two-year study for Kanal Istanbul...