Beylikdüzü

Following a week of spring rainfall and occasional strong winds, Turkey's metropolises have witnessed an unexpected snowfall, as this time around, March, contradicting the old weather lore, came like a lamb and will go out like a lion.

Turkey's most populated province of Istanbul, which faces an imminent threat of being hit by a magnitude 7 or higher powerful earthquake, is home to 260,000 buildings that were constructed before 1980, a report has said.

With the fear of using public transit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people in Turkey's largest metropolis, Istanbul, have switched to using their personal vehicles instead, leading to high traffic density.

Istanbul's western and northern outskirts were partly covered in snow on Feb. 12 following warnings from both meteorological and local authorities.

Snowfall was partially effective in districts located in the far west of the metropolis such as Beylikdüzü, Büyükçekmece, Çatalca and Silivri.

After three days of almost incessant rainfall and occasional strong winds, Istanbul awoke to a surprise snowfall on a weekend that coincided with a curfew imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Istanbul's residents have consumed anchovies, known more widely in Turkish as "hamsi," bonito and haddock the most in 2020, according to Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality data compiled by state-run Anadolu Agency.

Some 97 different fish species were brought to the main fish market in the Gürpınar neighborhood of the Beylikdüzü district, said municipality officials.

Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) for the 27th time this year, the "Istanbul Jazz Festival" will meet music enthusiasts between June 27 and July 14.
The festival, which will host over 300 local and foreign artists, will be held in 27 different venues of Istanbul.

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul's Beylikdüzü district, has asked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to vote for him in his mayoral bid for the country's largest province during a meeting at the Presidential Complex in the capital Ankara.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has nominated Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul's Beylikdüzü district, to run for Istanbul province in the upcoming local elections in March 2019, while announcing Mansur Yavaş, a former CHP mayoral candidate for 2014 elections, to run for Ankara, the country's capital city.

A total of 19 people were injured on Dec. 3 when two metrobuses crashed on the Beylikdüzü-Zincirlikuyu line in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.