Yedi Kule

Yedikule Gazhanesi Hangar has recently opened with an exhibition titled 'The Long Walk 68,' focusing on the great breaking point of Turkish political history in the context of cultural and economic transformations in the world. Curated by Feyyaz Yaman the exhibition can be visited through July 31.

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the refusal of the request for the return of the properties of two Armenian foundations, which had been taken over by the Treasury, violated their property rights and that a retrial should be held.

A woman exercises in a spring scenery near the Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress Yedi Kule, in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on 20 April 2020, during a lockdown order by the Greek government to protect from the coronavirus. [Dimitris Tosidis/EPA]

A footballer at the Yedikule Sports Club was stabbed to death while he was trying to intervene to stop a man hitting a woman on an Istanbul street on Jan. 29. 

Recep Eraslan, 64, has worked a tiny sliver of land on Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet peninsula for more than three decades. He grows spring onions, arugula and cabbage on a 0.5 hectare plot along the city's ancient Byzantine-era walls that are part of one of the oldest urban gardens, or bostans in Turkish, in the world.

The Istanbul Archeologists Foundation has filed a complaint to the Turkish Culture Ministry's preservation board against the Fatih municipality for allegedly damaging the historic, UNESCO-protected Yedikule walls by laying asphalt on a protective clearing beside the walls.

Gravel was dumped at the historic Yedikule Gardens, a UNESCO-protected site near the Marmara shoreline along the Byzantine-era ramparts surrounding the old city of Istanbul, bringing the gardens' future back into the spotlight.