If the world press were to be believed, the Black Sea has become a cesspit of flithly politics laced with grubby speculation on a mega scale. Kiev speaks for itself. A horrendous nuclear power station project is steaming ahead a stone's throw from a well-known earthquake fault line at Sinop on Turkey's Black Sea coast (the Japanese and Russians are involved – both have spotless reputations for nuclear leaks). Last weekend the BBC quoted a Russian politician calling the Sochi games as 'a monstrous scam'. You can imagine the field day they would have had if Istanbul had won the Olympic Games. Sadly Olympics or no Olympics, it seems it's business as usual on Istanbul's northern front. On the day the great leader himself descends on Berlin, Deustche Welle has published a scathing report on his plans to reshape Istanbul's northern Black Sea littoral.
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