The excitement and frenetic activit...

The excitement and frenetic activity of Istanbul during the height of the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago must have been similar to that which took place simply a few years ago just east of the city during the construction of Sabanci University. Tower cranes and unite trucks dotted the 240-acre site, and a construction crowd the size of a small army built the just discovered 32-building campus from the estate up on what had been an industrial site.

Sabanci is single in kind of the newest in a wave of privately financed higher-education institutions in Turkey After five years of design and