Bodies of water

The video below reveals the 12-month life cycle of the world’s plant life. Pulsating masses of color represent fluctuations of density of plant growth on land and chlorophyll concentration from phytoplankton in the oceans. Density of land vegetation on the map ranges from barren brown to rich green where plant life is the most luscious.

At least one person has died and two others are missing after a boat carrying refugees sank on Oct. 27 in the Aegean Sea, off the Turkish province of ?zmir.

The Turkish Coast Guard on Oct. 28 said 42 people were rescued from the sea soon after the incident off the resort town of Çe?me. It also said a search and rescue operation was underway to find two missing refugees. 

The Kurba?al?dere stream, located in Istanbul's Asian-side district of Kad?köy, flooded due to heavy rainfall on Sept. 12, blocking a number of roads to traffic and paralyzing daily life nearby.

A Mediterranean monk seal appeared on the surface of the water and posed for the cameras off the Cennet Beach in Turkey?s touristic district of Bodrum.

The endangered species appeared in the sea off Bodrum?s Göltürkbükü neighborhood before disappearing back into the Aegean. 

A 45-year-old tourist from Israel drowned on Sunday in the Black Sea off the resort of Slanchev Bryag (Sunny Beach), police say.

His body was taken out late on Sunday evening. The man was drawn deeper into the water by a rip current, Focus News Agency reports.

He had been on a holiday at the Black Sea since August 07.

The 14th Istanbul Biennial will be held between Sept 5 and Nov 1 in over 30 venues on the European and Asian sides of the Bosphorus The 14th Istanbul Biennial "Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms," drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, will open to the public from Sept. 5 to Nov. 1.

Six tons of Turkey-donated medical equipment and supplies, along with six fully-equipped ambulances, have arrived in Djibouti, the Turkish ambassador to the country said on July 5.

A 10-month-old baby drifted a kilometer from the coastline of Turkey's northwestern Çanakkale province until a coast guard boat arrived to save her on July 3.

Melda Ilg?n was placed in an inflatable ring by her mother in the Ayvac?k district of Çanakkale, on the southern coast of the Dardanelles, before she was swept away.

A total of 4,243 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean over the past 24 hours while trying to reach Europe in inflatable dinghies and fishing boats, the Italian coast guard has said.

Seventeen migrants were found dead. The reasons for their death was not immediately known, according to AFP.

Occupying the entrance floor of SALT Beyo?lu, a new installation, titled "Strait" by architect Neyran Turan, constructs a physical and imagined Bosphorus as the peculiar petrol pipeline it has become since the 1990s.