Marmara Region

Istanbul's Chief Prosecutor's Office has demanded three aggravated life sentences for each of the 19 soldiers who raided daily Hürriyet, the Hürriyet Daily News, CNN Türk and Kanal D at the Doğan Media Center in Istanbul's Bağcılar district on the night of the failed coup on July 15, 2016.

The third edition of Anadolu Agency's Istanbul Photo Awards has been made into a week-long event following the merger of the Istanbul Photo Awards Workshop and the Istanbul Photo Awards Talks.

A new subway line is set to be constructed in Istanbul's European side connecting Ortaköy and Sarıyer, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş said March 10. 

A helicopter carrying top business execs has crashed onto a motorway after smashing into an atrial tower.

Five people were killed after the chopper came down in the mainly residential Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul, Turkey.

The Sikorsky S-76 helicopter had taken off from Istanbul's main Ataturk airport with seven people on board minutes before the accident.

The mayor of Gelibolu in northwestern Turkey on March 9 announced plans to invite Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman to the town.      

A humanitarian aid organization, Sıcak Yuva Vakfı (Warm Home Association), has hung a banner saying "yes" for the upcoming constitutional change referendum, on Istanbul's UNESCO-listed historic city walls despite bans.  

Renowned Turkish historian İlber Ortaylı has criticized a controversial plan made by Istanbul's Fatih district to convert its historic city walls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a wedding hall, urging preservation boards to take additional care for the city's appearance and profile. 

An underwater pedestrian tunnel connecting Istanbul's European and Asian sides will go out to tender on March 27. 

The two-kilometers tunnel, with a diameter between 12 and 15 meters, will connect the Kabataş district on the European side to Üsküdar district on the Asian side and will include moving walkways as well as bicycle and electric vehicle lanes. 

Investments worth around $10 billion are expected to be made in the central Istanbul district of Beyoğlu over the next three years, Beyoğlu Mayor Ahmet Misbah Demircan stated on March 1. 

Bullets and cartridges from the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli have been stolen from the Namazgâh Bastion of Kilitbahir Castle in the western province of Çanakkale, daily Habertürk has reported.