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Fishermen using cast nets in the depths of the Bosphorus Strait and close to its shores on big fishing boats are threatening marine wildlife, experts have warned.

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry permits industrial fishing at 24 meters of depth offshore and in seas, but fishermen have been throwing nets from their large fishing boats close to the banks of the Bosphorus Strait.

Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) will host a concert titled "Jazz at Atlı Köşk."

The concert, to be performed by the Çağıl Kaya Trio, will meet music lovers on Turkish state channel TRT2 on Dec. 28 at 7 p.m. and on SSM's YouTube channel on Dec. 29 at 8:30 p.m.

A view of Atatürk Arboretum with fall foliage in Istanbul. (Source: AA)

A café launched under a birdwatching tower in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul has triggered a dispute between birdwatchers and the officials.
"We feel like outsiders now, we cannot do birdwatching here anymore," said the birdwatchers.

Istanbul's Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM), which has been closed as part of measures taken against the COVID-19 outbreak, has started sharing its selections from past exhibitions on its digital channels. 

Turkey earned over 189.5 million liras (some $32 million) in tolls in January, official figures revealed on Feb. 25.

The July 15 Martyrs' Bridge and the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus, yielded over 39 million Turkish liras ($6.6 million) last month, according to the General Directorate of Highways.

Body of another fisher was found on Jan. 14 days after three crew members of a Turkish fishing boat went missing in a collision in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait.

"Body of I.D., one of the missing fishers, has been recovered [from the sea]," the Office of Istanbul Governor said in a statement.

His body was recovered from some 77-meter (252 feet) depth.

A 6.5-meter sculpture of a puppy killed in June in the northwestern province of Sakarya after all its legs and tail were cut off has been erected in Istanbul's Kilyos beach as part of the 5th Kilyos Sand Art Festival. The horrible murder of the dog had caused public outrage in the country.

A sea tornado has stirred panic among some locals of Istanbul's Yeniköy neighborhood.

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey. (File photo by Serkan Türk)