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He immediately departed on a plane to Istanbul, the official source said

With students returning to the metropolitan city of Istanbul after spending a hefty amount of time in their hometowns due to the pandemic, apartment rental prices in the city are now on the rise.

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New environmental projects for Istanbul are crucial as 76 percent of the pollution load of the Marmara Sea comes from the metropolis, the head of a parliamentary research commission examining mucilage that invaded the sea early in the summer has said.

Turkey recorded 660,595 house sales in the January-July period, down 22.7 percent year-on-year, the country's statistical authority announced on Aug. 13.

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Istanbul had the highest share with 26,716 house sales, according to official figures announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

A prominent Turkish architect made a proposal to give the old names of Istanbul into some corners or regions of the metropolis to remind the inhabitants of the cultural and historical richness of the city.

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More than 2.7 million foreign tourists visited Istanbul in the first six months of 2021, the provincial directorate of culture and tourism has said.

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In June alone, the number of foreign arrivals amounted to 685,000 people and this was the highest figure in the past 16 months.

The Turkish foreign ministry on July 24 rejected the U.N. cultural agency's remarks on the state of Hagia Sophia after it was converted to a mosque and said its statement is "biased and political."  

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 24 marked the first anniversary of the reopening of Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque.

The fifth Istanbul Design Biennial, titled "Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one," has reached an end with a new project titled Büyükada Songlines, which is a floating garden populated by plants, soil, insects and birds.

The population of Turkey's biggest city of Istanbul is more than those of 75 countries in the world, despite a downward trend in population observed in the last year, according to the latest data released by the country's Interior Ministry.