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[bruceb]

"What was supposed to be a European-inspired haven in the Middle East is now littered with abandoned construction materials, making it a proper ghost town."

Middle East? don't think many people consider it the middle east.

[yardstick → bruceb]

Turkey is predominately in the Middle East, despite a small section in the European continent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East

[pafje → yardstick]

While only a small part of Turkey is in Europe, that part is very important (Istanbul).

Turkey is also still officially applying for EU membership although neither side wants it these days and the process is all but dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Eur...

[Clewza313 → pafje]

Only half of Istanbul is in Europe, and while the historical core is on the European side, most of the modern city center (Taksim etc) is on the Asian side.

[Freak_NL → Clewza313]

Taksim is on the European continent though:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6271669244#map=14/41.0320...

[Clewza313 → Freak_NL]

You're right! It's on the east side of the Golden Horn, but still west of the Bosphorus.

[flohofwoe → bruceb]

It depends on the language. For instance, what the US and UK calls the "Middle East", Germany calls the "Near East".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittlerer_Osten

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naher_Osten

[thaumasiotes → flohofwoe]

We also call it the "Near East"; that term is just less common than "Middle East".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_East

[HeavenFox → bruceb]

I thought so too; isn’t it part of Near East? However Wikipedia suggests people have began to use the term Middle East to cover that part of the world too apparently

[distances → HeavenFox]

For what it's worth, for me they are synonyms.