Taner Yildiz

Every day, fishermen are going out fishing in the Bosphorus to hunt veined rapa whelks, large sea snails that have been touted widely as an antidote to cancer and are popular in Far Eastern countries.

Taner Yıldız, an academic from Istanbul University, told daily Hürriyet that the rapa whelks were significantly valuable, saying their export market value is around $20 million.

Turkey's foreign minister has said if a far-right, anti-immigrant German party wanted to campaign in Turkey, it would be free do to so.        

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on April 15 that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) would -- if it came -- be allowed to hold a rally in Istanbul's huge Yenikapı meeting arena, Anadolu Agency reported.

A rental agreement for a hall in Germany in which former Energy Minister Taner Yıldız was set to deliver a speech on March 6 has been canceled amid increasing tension between Berlin and Ankara over the cancelation of Turkish ministers' speeches in the country. 

Turkish Minister Taner Yildiz on Wednesday told reports he has sent a draft agreement on Turkish Stream to Moscow and is now waiting for a response.

This comes after weeks of speculation about disagreement between Russia and Turkey over construction of the pipeline, especially regarding gas prices.

Turkey has halted the flow of oil in the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which was damaged in a suspected sabotage act inside its territory near the border with Iraq, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported on Wednesday.

Turkey launched on Tuesday the construction of its first nuclear power plant in the southern province of Mersin, with a ground breaking ceremony that was attended by Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz and other top officials.

On March 31, a rare thing in our century happened in Turkey. A major power outage hit most cities in the country. It was a day to remember.

According to daily Hürriyet, a technical problem in the system of the Turkish Electricity Conduction Company (TE?A?), which operates energy transmission lines, led to the massive outage.

Tens of provinces across Turkey were left without electricity on Tuesday after a damage to the power grid that passes through the biggest city Istanbul links the country's European and Asian territories.

Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu says no version is currently being dismissed to explain the incident, including a terror attack, according to Hürriyet Daily News.

The first Turkish-made seismic-survey vessel, Turkuaz, which cost 300 million Turkish Liras ($115 million), was launched on March 26 in Istanbul.

Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said at a ceremony that the new vessel holds great importance for Turkey?s economic and political interests.

Turkey and Azerbaijan will on Tuesday formally begin construction on a new gas pipeline costing over $10 billion which will pump gas from the vast Azerbaijani Shah Deniz 2 field across Anatolia to Turkish and EU consumers.