Commentary/Esen Çağlar: How can Turkey become world’s 10th largest economy with these pavements? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed Turkey's goal to become the tenth largest economy of the world, this time with reference to the urbanization experience.
"I spent the last week in three different cities: three days in Istanbul, two days in Paris and two days in Ankara. Lately, whenever I leave Ankara, questions about city planning run through my mind. The biggest question I had after the two days in Paris was, “If Paris is a city, what is Ankara?”"
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