Istanbul's New Airport Aims To Be One Of World's Largest edition.cnn.com

It's ambitious, award-winning and already hit with controversies. Istanbul's new airport was officially inaugurated Monday — although it won't be fully functioning til the end of the year.
Why the rush if it's not quite ready? Well there's symbolic significance: October 29 marks the 95th anniversary of Turkey establishing itself as a republic.
The swanky new airport aims to establish itself as a major travel hub and a key player on the world aviation stage, thanks to Turkey's East-meets-West location.
Once completed, the airport will be pretty huge — the total project area is 76.5 million square meters. It's supposed to have the world's largest terminal under one roof, although it's opening in phases and only limited flights will take off at first.
But the PR team says the airport is "built to grow" and they hope the airport will see 200,000 or more passengers passing through daily.
Controversial project