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Istanbul takes on a different beauty when its historic peninsula, Bosphorus strait, museums and restaurants are covered with snow. And using it as a center, you can branch out to Anatolia, the rising star of winter sports.

The case on the murder of Nigerian refugee Festus Okey at Istanbul's Beyoğlu police station in 2017 has been reopened after 11 years, with activists and rights groups vowing to keep following the case.

The winter season’s first snow has hit Istanbul and Ankara, as the meteorological authority warned citizens of steeply dropping temperatures in several provinces. Click through for the story in photos...

A workshop held by UNICEF for journalists in the southeastern province of Gaziantep has advised media to "not report news if it is not in the best interest of the child."

The Phrygian Valley, located within the borders of the Aegean provinces of Kütahya and Afyonkarahisar and the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir, has suffered heavy destruction by treasure hunters. Targeting rock tombs, churches and castles in the region, the vandals also destroyed the walls of the rock-hewn Ayazini Church built a millennium ago with dynamite. 

An Istanbul court has ordered the release of 31 Istanbul Airport construction workers who were jailed since September after protesting their working conditions. 

On December 4, Sofia citizens will be traveling by public transport with a special "green ticket" for BGN 1, the Sofia Municipality announced. It is valid all day for all lines.

Forecast of dangerously polluted air in Sofia Municipality.

Exceeding the norm of fine particulate matter is today and tomorrow. According to the site of the municipality, the most dirty is the air over the districts "Druzhba", "Hipodruma" and "Nadezhda".

There are currently no breakdowns to the heat transfer network in the capital. This is what Elizabeth Pavlova spokeswoman ''Toplofikatsia Sofia'' said in the morning block of the Bulgarian National Television.

A motorcycle rider in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep has been stambed to death by a horse he hit on the road.