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The first test of the Gayrettepe-Istanbul Airport metro line, which will be Turkey's fastest metro line once it is ready with a speed reaching 120 kilometers per hour, has been conducted successfully by the transport and infrastructure minister. 

Construction began on Jan. 18 on a new high-speed metro line connecting the heart of Istanbul to the new mega-Istanbul Airport.

The new line, set to be finished in August 2021, will whisk passengers from Gayrettepe, in Şişli, on the Turkish metropolis' European side, to the new airport in just 35 minutes.

A massive fire broke out early March 18 in a three-story chemicals factory in Istanbul's Yeşilbayır neighborhood in Arnavutköy district, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has said. Click through for the story in photos...

Otobüs A.Ş., owned by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, on Sept. 27 won the tender for the shuttle bus transfer service from and to the new Istanbul airport.