Marmara Region

A group of 460 people managed to enter the Guinness Book of World Records on Aug. 30 after joining forces in Turkey's northwestern province of Bursa to form the world's biggest floating peace sign.

A fire broke out Aug. 25 in a forested area inside a military zone in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, with flames spreading to a wider area due to windy conditions, according to witnesses.

The D-100 motorway towards Edirne way has reportedly been blocked to traffic.

The military zone is close to residential areas in the Tuzla district.

An ?accessible open area? is to be developed at the ancient site of Troy, located within the borders of the Tevfikiye village in Turkey?s northwestern province of Çanakkale. 

Heavy rain in Istanbul affected sites on the European and Anatolian sides of Istanbul, filling a newly built tunnel in Taksim and flooding Üsküdar district.

The tunnel in Istanbul?s touristic Taksim district, which was recently built as part of the controversial Taksim pedestrianization project, was flooded following a day of heavy rain. 

Transport Minister Feridun Bilgin has said preparation works are ongoing for a new metro line between the Kaynarca district on Istanbul?s Asian side and Sabiha Gökçen Airport. 

A Gülermak-YSE consortium won the tender to construct the line, Bilgin stated, adding that the land has been officially submitted to the consortium to start construction works. 

A new exhibition at Istanbul Modern titled ?Artists in Their Time? offers a roadmap for understanding the intertemporal and existential journey of artists through the notion of time Istanbul Modern?s new collection exhibition ?Artists in Their Time? focuses on how artists position their work and themselves as individuals within the concept of time.

Turkish police have discovered a house of horror in which a Syrian couple was reportedly tortured by a drug dealer on Istanbul?s historic city walls.

The suspect, identified as Suat ?., was detained with nine other people on Aug. 17 after an informant told the police they were selling drugs in Istanbul?s historic Fatih neighborhood.

Aug. 17 marked the 16th anniversary on the deadly earthquake in which around 18,000 people were killed in seconds overnight in northwestern Turkey. The pain of grieving families remains undimmed since 1999. 

One person has been killed and three others have been injured after a car crashed into a home garden after flying off a street and through a row of hedges in Istanbul's Üsküdar district.

The victims of an earthquake which shook the country 16 years ago will be commemorated in ceremonies across the country, particularly focused on the northwestern province of Kocaeli, where many people were killed under the wreckage of their houses.