Marmara

A shipyard located in Turkey's Marmara region has built its 47th ship for the Norwegian company Havyard Group, the head of the shipyard said on June 12.

The fourth Parthenon Film Festival will host three open-air cinema nights in the central square of the quaint village of Parthenonas, about 6 kilometers outside Neos Marmaras on Halkidiki's Sithonia peninsula. This year, the festival has picked movies that explore the notion of dreams, as a pleasurable experience, an enigmatic riddle and a nightmare.

A man in the Marmara province of Düzce in northwest Turkey accidentally shot himself in the leg with a rifle on the evening of May 15, "celebrating" the arrival of the Muslim holy month Ramadan.

A cargo vessel that crashed into a waterside mansion on the Bosphorus on April 7 has been moored in the Marmara Sea for investigation, with the owners of the mansion demanding proper prosecution against those in charge of maritime traffic.

Dap Holding won a tender held by Emlak Konut GYO to develop a real estate project worth 1.76 billion Turkish Liras ($451 million) on the property belonging to the Marmara University campus in the Teşvikiye neighborhood of Istanbul's Nişantaşı district, daily Hürriyet reported on March 21.

A theology professor from Istanbul’s Marmara University has drawn criticism after slamming the keeping of male and female patients in the same rooms during intensive care.

In what was perceived as warning to Greece and Cyprus, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has declared that Turkey has the ability "to neutralize any kind of threat." 

An expert has warned that 81 of the 114 abandoned ships in Turkey’s territorial areas in the Marmara, the Aegean and Black Seas pose an environmental and public health risk. After a recent legislation, authorities have been tackling 30 of the “ghost ships,” as they are called by fishermen.

A 78-year-old woman was killed by her 85-year-old husband when he tried to solve her constipation with water pressure in the Marmara province of Kocaeli on Feb. 17.

A total of 64,540 kilograms of gold bars were seized in a coach on Jan. 21 in the Marmara province of Bolu.