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Erdogan s crazy canal project may turn into Turkey s White Elephant ANI | Updated: May 04, 2021 12:14 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus], 4 May (ANI): Turkey s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after trying to change the country s history through his involvement in numerous conflicts in the Middle East and Nagorno Karabakh, appears to be determined to change the geography also by trying to create a second Bosporus strait. His plan is to dig an artificial 45-kilometer canal, parallel to the Bosporus, linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. But this grandiose project, which Erdogan himself in the past described as crazy , may prove to be a white elephant expected to cause huge ecological catastrophe, anger the inhabitants of Istanbul and create problems with Russia.

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