Istanbul

A physically impaired man who climbed up the stairs on his hands to vote in the referendum due to an elevator malfunction at a school used as a polling station has said he will file complaints against the school administration. 

Journalist Ali Bayramoğlu was attacked after casting his referendum vote in Istanbul at around 12:50 p.m. on April 16.

Former daily Yeni Şafak columnist Bayramoğlu arrived at the Şair Nedim Elementary School in the Gayrettepe district of Istanbul and was initially subjected to a verbal assault. 

A physically impaired man has climbed up the stairs on his hands to vote in the referendum due to an elevator malfunction at a polling station in the Eyüp district of Istanbul. The man, whose name was not disclosed, said those who were responsible for failing to provide the service "should be ashamed."

A new subway line will be built to reach the Silivri district of Istanbul, Mayor Kadir Topbaş announced on April 13. 

Topbaş said work on designing the new 32.5-kilometer long metro line is ongoing and the total cost would be $1.6 billion.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said that uncontrolled power brings disaster, as he commented on the April 16 referendum that will decide whether the current parliamentary system should be shifted into an executive presidency.

A play featuring the coffins of "killed soldiers" and children playing the roles of "veteran soldiers" and "grieving mothers" at an elementary school in the Bağcılar district of Istanbul has drawn widespread criticism after photos emerged on social media. 

A helicopter carrying top business execs has crashed onto a motorway after smashing into an atrial tower.

Five people were killed after the chopper came down in the mainly residential Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul, Turkey.

The Sikorsky S-76 helicopter had taken off from Istanbul's main Ataturk airport with seven people on board minutes before the accident.

A group of high school students in Istanbul who developed a mechanic device to rescue a puppy trapped in a well for 10 days has received an invitation from Stanford University to visit the prestigious school's Robotics Laboratory. 

Some 1,734 people have been arrested for "making terror propaganda" on social media since the failed July 2016 coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

"Cyber-police" working on identifying suspects making terror propaganda online have so far detained at least 3,894 people out of 22,088 identified by police since the coup attempt. 

Turkey's Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communication Minister Ahmet Arslan has announced that a new train line between Istanbul and Bulgaria's capital Sofia will start its journeys on Feb. 20, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.