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The General Directorate of Highways (KGM) has announced the increased bridge and highway toll prices that will be valid in the new year.

Following the commencement of evening inspections in Istanbul at the start of this month aimed at detecting illegal migrants, law enforcement officers have widened their scope to include nearby Bursa province.

An exploded sea mine caught in fishermen's net in the Bosphorus has been detonated by the efforts of the military.

"A sea mine, which was caught in the net of a fishing boat and taken to a deck in the Bosphorus, was examined by an Underwater Defense [SAS] team and destroyed at the SAS Command/Riva destruction training area," the Defense Ministry said on Twitter.

A container ship and a fishing boat collided in Istanbul's Bosporus Strait, killing two persons on June 17. 

Turkey's Directorate General of Coastal Safety said the ship AS ROSAILA hit a 7-meters-long (23-foot-long) fishing boat under Istanbul's Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge and the boat sunk.

As part of the "Green Crescent Week," the Fatih Sultan Mehmet and Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridges, two of Istanbul's major ones, were lighted green, the symbol color of the Turkish Green Crescent Society.

The NGO's vision is to make Turkey an example and leading country in the fight against addictions while basing its actions on human dignity.

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Turkey earned over 189.5 million liras (some $32 million) in tolls in January, official figures revealed on Feb. 25.

The July 15 Martyrs' Bridge and the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, connecting Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus, yielded over 39 million Turkish liras ($6.6 million) last month, according to the General Directorate of Highways.

The U.S. and Turkey need each other, despite having differences over a few issues, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran said on May 23.

Six people have been detained in connection with the attack on Yenicağ newspaper columnist Yavuz Selim Demirağ who was hospitalized after being assaulted outside his home on May 10.

Turkey is among top three countries of the world in kidney and liver transplants from live donors, Turkish Transplant Coordinators Association head Yavuz Selim Çınar said on July 4.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 22 answered his presidential candidate rival Muharrem İnce's criticism on citizens having to pay a "high toll rate" to use the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, the third bridge built over the Bosphorus, advising "those with money" to use the privately-operated toll bridges, with "others" having the possibility of utilizing free cost bridges or state-owned ones w