Human geography

Seeking to ensure that asylum seekers arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey have access to the public health system, the government is reportedly planning to provide them with a provisional number after the new year rather than a social security number (AMKA).

A generous person who likes to randomly dispense money to locals in Istanbul's poor neighborhoods made his fourth appearance in a residential area of Roma people.

Parts of the city of Thessaloniki in northern Greece suffered temporary power outages on Monday morning.
According to reports, large parts of the city center, coastal districts, as well as the area of Analipsi and the neighborhoods of Saranta Ekklisies and Triandria were affected.
The outages were the result of technical problems after winds caused trees to fall on power cables.

Istanbul Art Show will bring contemporary artists and art lovers together between Dec. 20 and 22, featuring different disciplines of art at the Istanbul Hilton Congress and Exhibition Center. The theme of this year's event is "Reality Suspended: Art in the Era of Post-truth."

A 50-year-old Greek man who was arrested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Tuesday is wanted by German authorities for allegedly defrauding investors of some 15.3 million euros.

A 9.2-square-meter shop in Istanbul's touristic and commercial hotspot Grand Bazaar will be auctioned for 12 million Turkish Liras (nearly $2.1 million), according to an auction call.

Heavy fog has disrupted air and ferry services, halted traffic as well in Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Nov. 18.

As floodwaters in Saint Mark's Square are no longer a novelty, and knowing that, in any case, Venice has a problem as it was built in a lagoon, most of us probably did not understand the severity of the danger posed by this week's flooding of the city that once reigned over much of the Eastern Mediterranean.

A major gastronomy event, Sirha Istanbul, which exhibits both food and non-food products, kicked off in Istanbul on Nov. 14 with a wide participation.

Turkish authorities have slapped a travel ban on the wife of a former British intelligence officer who was found dead in Istanbul, judicial sources said on Nov. 14.