Kurtuluş

Police in Turkey have arrested four people in relation to the desecration of Greek community cemetery in Istanbul last week.

Last Friday morning, staff at Aghios Eleftherios Cemetery, which serves the community of Tatavla in the Kurtulus district, noticed that holes had been dug within a fenced-off area of the cemetery.

No damage had been done to graves or the cemetery chapel.

The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday the desecration of the Greek Orthodox Cemetery of Agios Eleftherios in Istanbul, calling on the Turkish authorities to take appropriate action against this heinous act.

Vandals desecrated the Greek Orthodox cemetery of St.

The trustees of a Greek Orthodox cemetery in Istanbul have described an attack on it by vandals as an attack "not only on a cemetery, but also on a deep-rooted cultural heritage and religion."

Cafe Aman Istanbul musicians and singers Stelios Berberis and Pelin Suer return to Athens with the famous Baklahorani, the Carnival celebrated by the Greek community in Istanbul with bawdy masked parades that ended up in the famous district of Tatavla.

Turkish citizen Serkan Kurtuluş (in navy blue shirt) was detained in Tblisi, Georgia, on June 29, 2018.

A heavy rainfall hit Istanbul in the evening hours of July 27, causing fires and flash floods to occur across the city.

A fire broke out in the Haydarpaşa port when a crane toppled on an oil tanker, causing explosions. The fire was taken under control after firefighters arrived at the scene.

Transportation in the city also came to a near halt following the heavy rainfall.

A 22-minute short film starring famous Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer is at the center of the latest censorship row in Turkey, after its directors refused to cut parts of it in line with the demands of the authorities.

The property supply in Istanbul soared 2.5 times in the last three years, a new survey showed on Nov. 29. 

The annual commercial volume of property transactions also hit $249.43 billion on a U.S. dollar basis, according to data compiled by the data mining company TUVIUS. 

Kurtuluş Street (Herod Caddesi) in Antakya in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, a kind of shopping center for the rich in the ancient era known as the "world's first illuminated" street, is set to  come back to life nine-meters underground. The first traces of human settlement in Antakya date back to the Paleolithic Age.