The Turkish Straits System (TSS), comprising the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, plays a crucial role in the exchange of water between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. This unique ...

It has made the city a hub of cultures, influenced by Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans. This history is seen in a ...

The European side extends like a finger across the Bosphorus Strait, almost but not quite ... though transposed to a different location. In the 12th century, a defense tower was built on the ...

Istanbul was once a powerful city thanks to its geographical position along the Bosporus Strait. Because of this, it was at the gateway to Europe, Asia and Africa. How did the location of ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Southbound traffic in Turkey's Bosphorus strait will resume at 1440 GMT on Thursday, having been halted earlier in the day after a tanker suffered an engine failure ...

Saipem’s Castorone pipelay vessel has navigated its way through the Bosphorus Strait on its way into the Black Sea to work on the second phase of Turkish Petroleum’s huge Sakarya gas project.

The vessel, owned by Saipem SpA, crossed the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey, the company said in a media release. In the early hours of December 26, the vessel crossed the Dardanelles Strait ...

TASS/. The Black Sea Fleet’s patrol ship Sergey Kotov detected and destroyed a drifting Ukrainian mine northeast of the Bosporus Strait, the Fleet’s press office reported on Wednesday.

ISTANBUL, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Ship traffic in the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, one of the world's busiest waterways, was suspended Friday in both directions as part of a search and rescue mission ...