See an eerie ghost town of castles, created by Turkey’s recession
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Empty houses are a familiar sight in countries where economic recession has kneecapped booming real estate development. But few look as Gothic as these.
In Las Vegas, it was row after row of foreclosed tract homes. In Spain, it was sprawling housing projects that sat empty for years. In Turkey, it’s Burj Al Babas, a development of more than 700 individual “villas,” each styled with identical Gothic ornamentation.