Tuzla

Istanbul's first ever Bengal tigers were born on May 12 at Lion Park in the Tuzla district.

Turkey's Kale Group has successfully tested the country's first domestically developed turbojet engine, KTJ-3200, at facilities located in Istanbul's Tuzla district.

Tanjug is reporting this citing the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH)-based website capital.ba, which quoted source in the RS power company ERS.

An Istanbul prosecutor's office has launched an investigation to determine the cause of a fire that broke out at the Tuzla shipyard in Istanbul on Jan. 28 and killed two workers.

The newly-appointed president of Sabancı University, Prof. Yusuf Leblebici, took over the post from Prof. Zehra Sayers in a ceremony held at the university's Performing Arts Center in Istanbul's Tuzla district on Nov. 5.

The construction of a thermal power plant, block 7, in the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla is now on hold after Chinese investors said they were retreating from the project, the Bosnian news website Klix.ba reports on Wednesday.

A commemoration of more than 50 Yugoslav troops killed by Bosnian forces will not be held in Tuzla, where it happened, because Bosnian Serbs say they haven’t been allowed to install a memorial plaque.

Bosnian Roma actor Nazif Mujic, who won a prestigious award at the Berlin Film Festival five years ago, will be buried on Wednesday - his death at the age of 48 coming after his cinematic success failed to prevent his return to poverty in his home country.

The possible health impacts from the chemical that mixed in the sewage system and hospitalized hundreds of locals on Dec. 25 in Istanbul’s industrial Tuzla district on the Anatolian side has stirred controversy regarding the cause and the penalty for this hazard.

Hundreds of locals were hospitalized on Dec. 25 after being affected by chemical waste that got mixed in the sewage system and caused pungent smells that alarmed locals and officials in Istanbul’s industrial Tuzla district on the city’s Anatolian side.