{"id":53277,"date":"2012-05-07T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=53277"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:11:24","slug":"will-istanbul-become-a-global-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/05\/07\/will-istanbul-become-a-global-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Will \u0130stanbul Become a Global City?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u0130t was odd to go straight from the London elections to an academic conference on multiculturalism in \u0130stanbul, organised by the \u0130slington-based Dialogue Society, but at least London was the subject of the paper \u0130 presented at it at Fatih University. The precise topic was \u2018How successful a multicultural model is London?\u2019 I showed how London had developed its multicultural nature empirically through immigrat\u0131on over the centuries from the Empire, as well as through refugees from central and eastern Europe and more recently migrants from the New Commonwealth and other EU member states. But London\u2019s multiculturalism is normative as well, in the sense that successive governments \u2014 at national, regional and local level \u2014 since the 1980s have stressed the need to celebrate diversity as well as extending service provision to take into account the diverse population. That remains true despite comments by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron in Germany last year, subsequently contradicted by his Liberal Democrat Deputy Nick Clegg. \u0130n my paper, \u0130 judged that London has become a successful example of multiculturalism, though whether it can be a model for others is maybe a different matter. To an extent London is sui generis, not least because it is now an indisputably global city, whose inhabitants can see themselves as not only living in the UK but also as being global citizens. Therein lies much of the city\u2019s economic and financial success. But which other cities in the world might emulate that? New York, possibly, and, interestingly, \u0130stanbul. During Ottoman times, \u0130stanbul was the captital of a multicultural empire embracing many peoples, religions and languages. Everything changed after the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of a new Turkish Republic with its capital \u0131n Ankara and a state-driven policy (in the interest of nation-bu\u0131ld\u0131ng) of One Country, One People, One Language. But despite the departure of signif\u0131cant numbers of Turkey\u2019s minority inhabitants \u2014 not least the Greeks \u2014 Turkey is still de facto multicultural. The question now is whether the AKP government headed by Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has the courage and the conf\u0131dence to not just acknowledge this but follow through the consequences. \u0130stanbul meanwhile has become empirically more multicultural, with many foreigners, including Arabs \u2013 as well as a huge number of Kurds from Anatolia \u2013 setting up homes here. So maybe indeed it can aspire to being a multicultural global city, as well as Turkey\u2019s largest urban centre. The benefits would be considerable.<\/p>\n

via Will \u0130stanbul Become a Global City? \u00ab Jonathan Fryer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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