Turkey to build Istanbul canal

TURKEY is to build a “crazy and magnificent” canal to bypass the tanker-clogged Bosphorus in a massive feat of engineering.

Turkey to build Istanbul canal

The waterway, to be named “Canal Istanbul,” would link the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, which leads to the Aegean Sea.

It would be around 30 miles long, 80 feet deep and around 500 feet wide.

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