{"id":48900,"date":"2021-04-21T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=48900"},"modified":"2021-04-21T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:54:02","slug":"erdogans-canal-and-the-legacy-of-ataturk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/erdogans-canal-and-the-legacy-of-ataturk\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Canal And The Legacy Of Atat\u00fcrk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/10\/world\/europe\/turkey-erdogan-montreux-convention.html\">wants to build<\/a>\u00a0a canal.<\/p>\n<p>Called a \u201ccrazy project\u201d by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/may\/29\/turkey-nuclear-hydro-power-development\">none other<\/a>\u00a0than Erdo\u011fan himself, the Kanal \u0130stanbul would link the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara, and from there through the Dardanelles to the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Its main purpose would be to bypass the busy Bosporus, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/the-bosporus-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-62679962\/\">dangerously overcrowded<\/a>\u00a0strait that bisects the teeming metropolis of Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>It would also upend the 85-year-old Montreux Convention that demilitarized the Bosporus and, by extension, the entire Black Sea basin.<\/p>\n<p>Salvatore Babones, Australia\u2019s globalization expert\u201d and a contributing editor at 19FortyFive, goes into the details of this muti-billion dollar project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Erdogan\u2019s Canal And The Legacy Of Atat\u00fcrk by Radio Islam International\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1033745569&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1080&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u00a0wants to build\u00a0a canal. 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