Trabzon

Eight suspects have been captured over the murder of an Armenian-origin Turkish homeowner, an assault on his wife and the burglary of their shared home on Feb. 6.

An Istanbul prosecutor has unearthed files which show that Trabzon police intelligence had known about Ogün Samast, the hitman in Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink?s murder, before the incident took place.

The 14th annual Filmekimi will kick off in Istanbul on Oct 3. After the nine day festival, it will tour various Turkish cities until the end of the month Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) for the 14th time, this year?s Filmekimi will once again bring cinephiles together at several cities across Turkey. 

After a Turkish university professor and his team collected an unprecedented amount of data on life expectancy in Turkey, daily Hürriyet reporters visited the miracle towns, spoke to their inhabitants and learned from them how they live and age.

A Greek-Russian businessman with roots in Turkey's Black Sea region has offered to cover all the costs of the construction of a mosque in Trabzon in exchange for the Fener Orthodox Greek Patriarchate regaining control of the province's Hagia Sophia, a church-turned-mosque.

A police report described the attack against Fenerbahçe and Turkey midfielder Mehmet Topal as an "accident" and not as an attempted murder, local media reported on Aug. 12.

Topal's car was targeted as he was heading toward his home after training in the Sancaktepe district of Istanbul. All of the bullets hit the car but Topal escaped unhurt because his car has bullet-proof glass.

The Sumela Monastery, which was built in the 4th century B.C. in the northern province of Trabzon's Maçka district, is rushed by some 600,000 tourists annually, and a new lift system has been planned to help give them easier access to the monastery's amazing location. 

The eighth International Painting Festival has begun in the Black Sea province of Trabzon with the participation of 40 female artists from 20 different countries under the auspices of Femin&Art, a female artist collective.

The 6.5-kilometer, twin-tube Mount Kop Tunnel between Bayburt and Erzurum in east-ern Anatolia nearing completion, a Turkish Transportation Ministry official has said.

?We have dug nearly four kilometers so far and are now very near [completion],? Hayri Turgut, a control engineer at the Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communication Ministry, said June 27.

Two people detained over an armed attack on the bus of Turkish football team Fenerbahçe were released on probation on April 8, according to Rahmi Üstün, mayor of the Sümene district in the Black Sea province of Trabzon.

A Trabzon court ordered the release of the suspects due to a lack of concrete evidence connecting them to the gun attack.