Istanbul

More than 200 flights have been canceled by Turkish airline companies amid expectations of snowfall in Istanbul. 

More than 150 flights have been canceled by Turkish airline companies amid expectations of snowfall in Istanbul. 

In a statement on its official website, Turkey's flagship carrier, Turkish Airlines, announced that 131 flights scheduled from Istanbul's Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23 had been canceled amid expectations of heavy snowfall. 

German animal lover Sabina Herriger has donated clothes for the animals at Bitlis Municipality's dog shelter, as the eastern Turkish town regularly sees temperatures plunge to minus 20 degrees at night. All dogs at the shelter are now snugly dressed up in the water-proof polar clothes sent by Herriger.

Turkey's tourism industry, facing a sharp drop in foreign visitors this year, aims to boost the number of domestic tourists traveling both within the country and abroad to 20 million from the current 16.5 million, a leading industry representative said at a Jan. 20 event organized by daily Hürriyet. 

Turkey will offer jet fuel subsidies for flights to five of its tourist hot spots as part of its efforts to safeguard tourism revenue after a suicide bombing in Istanbul last week killed 10 German tourists.

Turkey's leading businessman Mustafa Koç suffered a heart attack on Jan. 21.

He was hospitalized to Istanbul's Beykoz State Hospital and his condition reported to be critical.

Koç was later transferred to the Vehbi Koç Foundation American Hospital (Amerikan Hastanesi), which he owns, by helicopter.

 The number of suspects detained in connection with last week's deadly blast in Istanbul has increased to 12 after Turkish authorities arrested two more people, state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) reported on Wednesday.

One soldier has been killed while six security officers have been wounded in an explosion that took place as a bomb squad was trying to dispose a bomb placed by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. 

Seven security officials have been wounded in an explosion that took place as a bomb squad was trying to dispose of a bomb placed by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province. 

The blast occurred at 5 p.m. on Jan. 20 on Nazif Street of Sur's Dabano?lu neighborhood. 

Turkish Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri I??k admitted that the investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink had been delayed, and blamed the "parallel state" for the delay.