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A group of environmentalists on Jan. 29 protested the planned construction of a tramway line that is expected to tear through Istanbul's Belgrade Forest, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Two attacks took place in Turkey on the same day, both in Constantinople. One was against the police Headquarters while the second one was against the local offices of President Erdogan’s political party Justice and Development Party’s(AKP) on Friday.

In both attacks the assailants used LAW anti-tank rockets. It is said that two people were involved in the attack.

Heavy snowfall and storms across Turkey paralyzed ordinary life, blocking roads and leading to the cancellation of many domestic and international flights. 
Turkish Airlines announced on Dec. 30 that it had cancelled a total of 258 scheduled flights due to bad weather conditions.

Istanbul police have detained 45 people in an operation against two suspected mafia organizations after collecting information that the two gangs were on the eve of major clashes. 

Various kinds of drugs worth 12 million Turkish Liras were seized in an operation on a house in the Eyüp district of Istanbul on Dec. 15. 

There were no initial reports of injuries or casualties and there were also no reports about the cause of the fire, according to Doğan News Agency.

The incident occurred at a factory producing rubber and plastic at the Baltaş industrial estate in Bayrampaşa at 10:30 a.m.

Istanbul police detained two suspects of Nigerian origin who were trying to smuggle drugs in condoms that they later swallowed in Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport on Nov. 11, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A substance that caused panic in the northwestern province of Sakarya after a local boy displayed an allergic reaction might have been caused by a battery rather than a radioactive material, the province's governor has said.

The discovery of a radioactive substance stirred panic in the northwestern province of Sakarya on Oct. 20, as a child was hospitalized due to purple-colored spots that appeared on his body. 

The 16-year-old child, identified only as Eyüp B., was hospitalized after playing with a metal object he found in a construction site in the Arifiye district.

A tramline that will run on the coast between Istanbul's Eminönü and Eyüp neighborhoods is set to be laid as its environmental impact assessment has begun. 

The line, which will carry 10,500 passengers in an hour, will offer a traffic-free sightseeing tour for those who want to see the age-old buildings in Istanbul's historical peninsula and Haliç area.