Turkey's Legendary Waterway Restored to Untarnished State; Golden Horn Bay Emerges From Stench and Industrial Filth From: The Washington Post | Date: December 14, 2001| Author: Selcan Hacaoglu | Copyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The stench is largely gone and the waters of the Golden Horn, once plied by the imperial boats of the Ottoman sultans, are slowly turning from black to blue.

Authorities have razed about 600 factories and a city-owned slaughterhouse that spewed filth into this fabled waterway, a 4 1/2- mile arm that flows into the Bosporus strait dividing Europe and Asia and was once described by the Ottoman poets as Sadabad or "place of bliss."

Nursen Sevik's family moved to the scenic banks of ...

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