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Former Turkish minister cashes in with urban transformation
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The family of Erdoğan Bayraktar, who was implicated in the massive corruption probe in December 2013, has earned up to 72.4 million Turkish Liras ($27.6 million) thanks to an urban transformation project pushed by Bayraktar during his tenure as the Environment and Urbanization Minister.

The company run by the Bayraktar family bought a 10,000-square-meter plot of land in Istanbul’s Koşuyolu neighborhood for $22 million in 2013. The former minister had said at the time that there was no conflict of interest, describing the purchase as “an innocent investment.”

However, the family recently sold the land to a developer for 114.4 million Turkish Liras ($43.9 million), daily Hürriyet has learned. The massive profit that the Bayraktars earned in just two years is thanks to a recent change in the legal status of the plot.

#Corruption #Transformation_urbaine #Istanbul

Mayors, power grid firm at odds in southeastern Turkey - LOCAL
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A row over electricity in southeastern Turkey is continuing to grow, with grid firm DEDAŞ cutting power to water utilities, prompting municipalities to close DEDAŞ facilities in return.

DEDAŞ stated that the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality was 90 million Turkish Liras in debt, leading it to cut power to water refining plants.

The municipality immediately dug ditches around the DEDAŞ headquarters to prevent entrance on the grounds that it was conducting sewage work.

The move by the grid firm has triggered risks of an epidemic for 1.6 million people, said co-Mayor Fırat Anlı, adding that an outbreak could create damage that the company cannot face.

Diyarbakır “is under oppression” by DEDAŞ, the co-mayor told Hürriyet

#Privatisation #Electricité

Exposition - Piri Reis map on tiles worth 1.5 million TL

via @alaingresh

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Piri Reis map on tiles worth 1.5 million TL

The collection, which was finished in 19 months by tile artist Fahri Çetinkaya, will be sold at auction in Istanbul with a starting price of 1.5 million Turkish Liras. AA photo
The famous world map of the Ottoman admiral Piri Reis has been transformed into 59 separate pieces of tile by an artist in the Aegean province of Kütahya, renowned for its tiles. The collection, which was finished in 19 months by tile artist Fahri Çetinkaya, will be sold at auction in Istanbul with a starting price of 1.5 million Turkish Liras.

#cartographie #cartographie-ancienne #turquie #piri-reis

India Plans To Create 12 Times The Number Of Colleges As The U.S. By 2020
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how big is the problem? Try 100 million young people entering the workforce between now and 2020. In a country with about 600 million citizens under the age of 25, India has a golden opportunity to live up to the projections of becoming the next China. (...)
So what’s a government to do? Put its hope in young, hungry entrepreneurs to build institutes of higher learning using U.S. universities as models.

#enseignement #inde #universités #science