Istanbul

A new website, Istanbul?s first official digital promotional platform, has gone online, created as a result of the Istanbul Governor?s Office?s ?Digital Platform Project.?

According to the website?s management, the Istanbul Convention and Visitors Bureau, ?howtoistanbul.com? has been is designed to bring together all services available in the city under one roof.

There remains a lot of interest in Turkey among international investors, a London Stock Exchange official told Anadolu Agency on Jan. 16.

Borsa Istanbul, Turkey's main stock exchange, signed a deal on Jan. 13 allowing the London Stock Exchange to list futures and options based on the BIST 30 Index and on leading Turkish stocks. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

The woman from Russia's Daghestan Republic who allegedly executed a suicide bombing attack in central Istanbul on Jan. 6 was the wife of a Norwegian extremist of Chechen origin, with whom she spent three months in Istanbul and passed the Syrian border.

After completing the underground railway Marmaray connecting Istanbul?s European and Asian sides - a public transportation project dubbed the ?project of the century? by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an - and with the third bridge and airport construction ongoing, the sky is now the limit for Istanbul.

While Turkey seems to be on a downward path in democracy, freedom of speech and fighting against corruption, the situation of the country?s football is no different.

A number of estates and "urgently needed" land will be expropriated for the construction of Istanbul's third bridge across the Bosphorus.

For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way.

It is always nice when a friend or relative fetches you from the airport whenever you visit your motherland. This time it was not my sister who was waiting for me, but a friend that I have known for years, Özkan Gölp?nar. We are friends, really good friends. When he got divorced, he stayed at my place; when I got divorced, I stayed at his.

An Istanbul court has arrested two policemen involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit and Özkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul. 

An Istanbul court has arrested a policeman involved in the inquiry into the killing of Hrant Dink, the Turkish Armenian journalist.

The court accepted on Jan. 13 the prosecutor's demand to arrest Muhittin Zenit, one of two police officers on duty at the police department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul.