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The Istanbul Municipality council approved a project for a new tramline, which is envisioned to connect three districts of the city's Asian side.

Named "AnadoluTRAM" previously, the new tramline is designed to link the districts of Üsküdar, Kadıköy and Maltepe, with the proposal confirmed by majority of votes in the council held by the municipality on June 11.

For the celebration of World Bicycle Day on June 3, all 81 provinces of the country have been bustling with competitions and cycling events, including numerous environmental awareness meetings.

One out of every five buildings in Istanbul, where concerns have been looming for long over a potential earthquake, is built on geologically risky ground, the Istanbul Environmental Plan Report has revealed.

The Turkish Central Bank will move its headquarters from Ankara to Istanbul this summer, according to an internal e-mail notice reported by the local media on Feb. 14. 

Last year, Central Bank Governor Şahap Kavcıoğlu told the media about plans to relocate the bank's units to the Istanbul Financial Center (IFC), which is still under construction, within 2022.

A fire broke out at a prison in Istanbul on Feb. 4, leaving 20 inmates and one prison warden hospitalized for smoke inhalation, Turkey's justice minister said.

There was no information on the cause of the blaze in Ümraniye prison, on the Asian side of the city.

A strong thunderstorm hit Istanbul and surrounding areas in Turkey's Marmara region late on Sept. 18, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds following a 'yellow warning' issued by the Turkish State Meteorological Service.

People hit the streets for shopping and catching some sun ahead of a 48-hour curfew to be imposed in 31 provinces of Turkey and that will impact 64 million residents.

The Interior Ministry has declared that bakeries, pharmacies as well as private and public health care institutions will be open during the lockdown.

Turkish bibliophiles have been buying novels mostly since a partial lockdown came on March 16, according to data shared by the Istanbul Statistics Office, one of the newly established departments of the municipality.

The office shared the statistics of 100,000 books purchased online from Istanbul Bookstore.

At least two people have died after a road caved in in Istanbul’s Ümraniye district on Nov. 2. Click through for the story in photos...

The Istanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education has submitted a report to the Education Ministry asking for school shuttle regulations to be revised following a recent fatal clash between shuttles of separate companies in the premises of a primary school in Istanbul's Ümraniye district, daily Habertürk reported on Sept. 7.