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Istanbul slum clearance

Jones, DorianFebruary 3, 2012

Istanbul - Turkey's largest city - is booming. Throughout the entire metropolis, where some 13 million people live, authorities are embarking on massive projects to redevelop the city.

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But these projects mean that thousands of people will have to move - in many cases to make way for high-end apartments and housing complexes. Nowhere is the contrast more stark than in Tarlabasi - a poor neighborhood in central Istanbul that developers can't wait to "refurbish" at a tidy profit. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.