Maslak "Spine Tower" which reaches a structural height of 202 meters; while the tallest skyscraper currently under construction in Maslak (as well as Istanbul and the rest of Turkey) is the Diamond of Istanbul, which comprises three centrally-connected towers, the tallest of which will have 53 floors above ground and will reach a structural height of 270 meters (thus surpassing the current tallest completed skyscraper in Istanbul, the 54-floor, 261 meters tall Istanbul Sapphire in the nearby Levent business district.) The Diamond of Istanbul will also be the first steel skyscraper in Turkey, where (as opposed to the situation in the
Paul Maslak Paul Maslak Paul Maslak is an American independent movie producer, book author, newsstand magazine editor and kickboxing historian. While editor of "Inside Kung Fu" magazine, he founded the STAR System World Kickboxing Ratings in 1980. These ratings were initially created as a mechanism for pressing tournament karate directors to adopt identical minimum safety procedures. With the help of colleague John Corcoran, a former PKA events coordinator and then editor of "KICK Illustrated" magazine, he expanded the STAR ratings into professional kickboxing in response to the organizational partisanship of the contender rankings generated by the sport’s major sanctioning bodies. As magazine