Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge

The World Bank has expressed keen interest in the railway project on Istanbul's Third Bosphorus Bridge, also known as the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said Tuesday.

The Transport and Infrastructure Ministry is currently evaluating a concept that would allow pedestrians to use the landmark the July 15 Martyrs' Bridge over Istanbul's Bosphorus with existing pathways that have been closed following security issues.

The General Directorate of Highways (KGM) has announced the increased bridge and highway toll prices that will be valid in the new year.

Almost a month after authorities launched a massive cleaning campaign, no trace of marine mucilage was detected in the north of the Bosphorus Strait, which is the entry point of the upper current coming from the Black Sea.

As part of the "Green Crescent Week," the Fatih Sultan Mehmet and Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridges, two of Istanbul's major ones, were lighted green, the symbol color of the Turkish Green Crescent Society.

The NGO's vision is to make Turkey an example and leading country in the fight against addictions while basing its actions on human dignity.

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Transport Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m has said the third bridge over Bosphorus will likely open in the first half of 2016, either in April or May. 

He noted that there would be four motorway lanes on the Northern Marmara Motorway and one railway line in each direction over the bridge during an Q&A session with a number of deputies at parliament late Dec. 22.