Istanbul

Two separate targeted hits in one day in upscale Istanbul neighborhoods that left three people dead late Dec. 24 were part of Amsterdam-based mafia wars over drug trafficking, according to Dutch media.

The killings in Istanbul might be related to mafia wars in the Netherlands which are related to drug trafficking, the BBC Turkey service cited Dutch television station NOS as saying.

Two separate targeted hits in one day in upscale Istanbul neighborhoods left three people dead late Dec. 24, just days after a bodyguard was killed in front of a bar in Istanbul's Nişantaşı neighborhood.

Interior Minister Efkan Ala said there was no concrete data in their hands that would allow them to say if the two hits were related but that they were working on that possibility.

An Istanbul court has decided to release one of the four arrested suspects in the case of the elevator accident at an Istanbul construction site that left 10 workers dead.  

Housing sales to foreign buyers have jumped by close to 60 percent for the January to November period, as data from the Turkish Statistical Agency (TÜİK) has shown.

A U.S., Israeli and Jordanian joint production, "Peace after Marriage" will be on the silver screen tomorrow.
 
Directed by the Bandar Albuliwi and Ghazi Albuliwi duo and produced by Philippe Akoka, Bandar Albuliwi, Faruk Özerten and Alain Peyrollaz, the comedy film stars Hiam Abbass, Ghazi Albuliwi and Omer Barnea.

A patch of land in a protected island on the Marmara Sea off Istanbul bought by Saudi Prince Sattam Bin Abdelaziz, the late brother of the Saudi king and former governor of Riyadh, will be opened to construction following the intervention of civil servants in Ankara, Turkish media reported Dec. 25.

The assassination of an Uzbek dissident in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu district was captured by two security cameras belonging to nearby businesses, Doğan News Agency reported.

Abdullah Bukhari, who was working as a religious leader and head of the İhsan Learning Services and Solidarity Association in Zeytinburnu, was killed in a gun attack on Dec. 11.

The assassination of an Uzbek dissident in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu district was captured by two security cameras belonging to nearby businesses, daily Yeni Şafak has reported.

Abdullah Bukhari, who was working as a religious leader and head of the İhsan Learning Services and Solidarity Association in Zeytinburnu, was killed in a gun attack on Dec. 11.

Turkey's state-run stock exchange Borsa Istanbul has started trading index futures of 10 companies from the Sarajevo Stock Exchange as part of expansion plans ahead of an initial public offering expected in the first half of 2016.

Borsa Istanbul is trying to increase links with other exchanges in the region such as those in Sarajevo and Montenegro as it prepares for the listing.

Turkey's Koçoğlu Construction, which won a tender to build the Çukurova Airport for 357 million euros, is now in talks with other companies to form a partnership deal for the project due to financial problems, Turkish Transport Minister Lütfi Elvan has said.