Whenever I take a taxi home from the city center to Etiler, I pass along the otobahn through an Alphaville landscape of Trump Towers, kiddy-neon malls and Carrefour Express supermarkets.

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The council installed a taxi rank to take club-goers home quickly and trimmed the hours of nearby take-aways.

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