Marmara Region

A 10-month-old baby drifted a kilometer from the coastline of Turkey's northwestern Çanakkale province until a coast guard boat arrived to save her on July 3.

Melda Ilg?n was placed in an inflatable ring by her mother in the Ayvac?k district of Çanakkale, on the southern coast of the Dardanelles, before she was swept away.

As part of the gallery's "Young Architects Program," Istanbul Modern Cinema has prepared a selection of three films, titled "On This Shore," to take visitors on a journey through Istanbul's history along its shores.  

Two people have been reported missing after a speedboat capsized in Istanbul's Bosphorus strait, crashing into the pier of a waterside cottage early June 28. 

The speedboat capsized around 4:30 a.m. off Anadoluhisar?, a coastal neighborhood in Beykoz, a district in Istanbul's Anatolian side, after it crashed into the pier of the historical Hekimba?? cottage. 

A cruise ship has collided with a tanker off Gallipoli while crossing Turkey's Dardanelles Strait.

"Louis Cristal," a 162-meter-long cruise ship registered in Malta, was travelling from Greece to Istanbul when it collided early June 27 with "STI Pimlico," a 182-meter-long tanker registered in Marshall Islands, which had left Russia for Malta, Do?an News Agency reported.

English actress Emma Watson managed to elude Turkish media throughout her low-key three-day holiday in Istanbul, but she lashed out at journalists as she was frisked by airport police on her way back home.

The Turkish state earned 356 million Turkish Liras ($133 million) from the tolls it collects on two bridges over the Bosporus and its national highways during the first five months of 2015, official figures revealed June 24.

Turkey needs at least 70,000 qualified IT professionals right now and a number of certificate programs will be launched to meet this need, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri I??k has said in an interview on Bloomberg HT television. 

A tender for the link roads within the scope of the Northern Marmara Highway project, which includes the under-construction third bridge over the Bosphorus, has been postponed yet again, as the interested parties need more time to finalize their proposals, according to an announcement by the General Directorate of Highways.

Several illegally constructed cafes and restaurants on the shoreline of a market place in Istanbul's Beyo?lu district were demolished early on June 22.

A demolishing team from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality bulldozed a number of workplaces including restaurants and cafes at the seaside of Per?embe Bazaar, located in the rapidly changing Karaköy neighborhood of Beyo?lu. 

An Istanbul court launches probe into a book by Tolga Tan??, the Washington correspondent of daily Hürriyet, following a complaint by President Erdo?an?s lawyer An Istanbul court has launched a probe into Tolga Tan??, the Washington correspondent of daily Hürriyet, following a complaint by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s lawyer Ahmet Özel, who accused the journalist for ?slandering?