Special envoy to Ankara
It is the story of a city as much as that of a man.
A charmless capital, bristling with concrete, that Mansur Yavas, the new mayor of Ankara, has made the bet to revamp.
Say goodbye to the old-fashioned sculptures and giant dinosaur replicas erected by his predecessor, a corrupt mustache looking like a pro-Erdogan bean.
Make way for cycle paths, the beautification of parks, renewable energies and the express facelift supported by participatory democracy.
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This bridge cost 45 million Turkish liras
», Announces a banner of the town hall which straddles a ribbon of asphalt between two hills of skyscrapers.
For the visitor subscribed to this megalopolis of 5 million inhabitants, leaving the Anatolian desert when it was proclaimed, in 1923, capital of the Republic by Atatürk, before being overtaken by the real estate frenzy of the Islamo-conservatives of the AKP , the changes are obvious.
Since his election in March 2019 at the head of the city
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