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Organized by TÜYAP Fairs in partnership with the Turkish Publishers Association, the 37th International Istanbul Book Fair will be held between Nov. 10 and 18 at the TÜYAP Fair Congress and Convention Center in Istanbul's Büyükçekmece district. 

A university student who was left locked inside their apartment by his forgetful sister has managed to get to his exam on time thanks to helpful municipality workers and police in Istanbul. 

Turkey's best real estate projects were awarded in Istanbul on Nov. 7.

A key figure in a street fight in which an Irish tourist had sensationally defended himself with punches against more than a dozen club-wielding locals in Istanbul, has seen a reduction of his jail sentence.

A media drone flown by Demirören News Agency has been targeted with a shotgun in an attempt to capture images of the damage inflicted on Istanbul's Byzantine and Ottoman heritage by unlicensed structures. 

The parents of a Bulgarian man whose heart was transplanted last year to a Turkish man have recently visited Istanbul to meet the recipient.

Municipality workers have discovered the remains of an Ottoman town on the Asian side of Istanbul after digging the ground only one foot deep for a new drainage system. But officials have stirred public outcry by ordering the reburial of the ancient town. Click through for the story in photos...

The Turkish education system's decades-old flawed approach to the way literature is taught remains the main cause behind low levels of readership, according to author Selim İleri, who is the Writer of Honor of this year's International Istanbul Book Fair, which starts on Nov. 11. 

Google employees outside its European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

Some 15 kilograms of cocaine was seized in Istanbul's Atatürk Airport last week, security sources said on Oct. 31.