Sea of Marmara

Thirty-nine people were injured as a result of the earthquake. Turkey is located in the seismically active zone, and the country often suffers strong earthquakes, which often lead to human casualties. The strongest fluctuations of the Earth's crust in Turkey were recorded in 1999 in the Marmara sea region.

The Domestic Transporters Association (YND) is preparing to establish one of Europe's largest logistics bases next to one of Turkey's key megaprojects, Kanal Istanbul, a canal parallel to the Bosporus to connect the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea. YND Chairman Sedat Hakan Karataş said the initial cost ...

And while Caddebostan is a pleasant area with a wonderful park that stretches around the Marmara Sea coast and ranks among our favorite hangout spots in nice weather, the neighborhood is not on our list of top culinary destinations. We left a bit miffed, quickly coming to grips with the fact that we had to ...

Finally, we investigate the expected route for Kanal Istanbul, a planned artificial shipping channel between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, in light of concerns from environmentalists, and find out how shipping giant Maersk managed to reduce facilitation payments by 96% on its vessels in its fight ...

A Turkish national who confessed to killing a Greek Cypriot in the breakaway state in the north of Cyprus tried to hang himself in his cell in Turkey, reports said Thursday. Other inmates alerted the guards who intervened and saved 22-year-old Erdinc Senturk's life. The suspect was rushed to hospital where ...

The Bosporus is a key waterway connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and then the Aegean Sea. The Weather Company's primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent ...

A relatively new project is the 45 to 50 kilometer-long, 150 meter-wide Istanbul Canal connecting the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea and thus, diverting some of the traffic in the strait. However, the costs and engineering challenges could be huge. Also, diverting traffic from the Bosphorus—where there are ...

The wreck of the Independenta burned for weeks, causing heavy air and sea pollution in the Istanbul area and the Marmara Sea. In June 2018, Turkey unveiled the Canal Istanbul Project, an artificial sea-level waterway parallel to the Bosphorus to connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.

In 1998, it was located in the sea of Marmara. The loss of the two vessels marked the end of Australia's submarine force until the early 1960s. Commodore Roach was one of the first young officers sent to the United Kingdom to train. Following that he was CO of the HMAS Otway, then the HMAS Ovens.

Source:AP. A red seaside historic mansion on the Bosporus strait, after being severely damaged by a tanker ship that crashed into it, in Istanbul, Saturday, April 7, 2018. Picture: DHA-Depo Photos via AP.Source:AP. The Bosporus is a key waterway connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and ...

The wreck of the Independenta burned for weeks, causing heavy air and sea pollution in the Istanbul area and the Marmara Sea. In June 2018, Turkey unveiled the Canal Istanbul Project, an artificial sea-level waterway parallel to the Bosporus to connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. The proposed ...

A cargo ship that smashed into an historic villa on the Bosporus waterway in Istanbul is moored up in the nearby Marmara Sea awaiting an investigation of the incident, Hurriyet reported. The owners of the mansion, located on the Asian side of the Bosporus, have demanded proper prosecution of those in ...

A cargo vessel that crashed into a waterside mansion on the Bosphorus on April 7 has been moored in the Marmara Sea for investigation, with the owners of the mansion demanding proper prosecution against those in charge of maritime traffic. “The ship that was involved in the accident has been routed to ...

PKK supporters celebrate April 4 as the birthday of Ocalan who is serving life commuted from a death sentence on the Imrali Island, in the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey since his capture in 1999. Kept in solitary confinement, the PKK leader has at times communicated through his brother. However, the government ...

In March 1945, Stalin made territorial claims to Turkey's northeastern provinces and demanded privileged shipping access to the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles. This hardball backfired, with the role of “the Soviet menace” playing a key role “in facilitating Turkey's integration into a ...

Istanbul's deputy leader has justified plans to link the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara by cutting a controversial 45km long canal through Turkey's largest city. ... “Istanbul, a city of 50M, has initiated a new 50km long water channel to connect the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea and Mediterranean beyond.

It is only due to a concerted campaign of diplomatic pressure on Russia by Turkey and the United States in the 1990s that Abdullah Ocalan is locked in an island prison in the Sea of Marmara, and not running his transnational narco-terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) out of Moscow. Not for nothing did ...

A woman take a selfie picture on a boat crossing the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul. Photo: AP. 4/7. Indian girl Pratigya, studies while she sells a mix of corn and millets that commuters buy to feed pigeons on a busy pavement in central New Delhi, India, Photo: AP. Advertisement. 5/7. a gaucho is thrown off ...

The northern Aegean, the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea recorded an increase of more than one meter. This led to the flooding of low-lying coastal areas that would have been ideal areas for settlement,” says lead author Professor Dr. Jens Herrle. The findings are based on a sediment core retrieved from ...

"Approximately 7,600 years ago, the sea level must have risen abruptly in the Mediterranean regions bordering Southeastern Europe. The northern Aegean, the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea recorded an increase of more than one meter. This led to the flooding of low-lying coastal areas that would have ...

Running its way from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara—which in turn leads on to the Aegean and Mediterranean—the mighty 32km long Bosphorus is a unique strait; in that it separates the continents of Europe and Asia. Connecting Europe with Asia, the 15 July Martyrs Bridge spanning over 1,500 ...

Mentioning the non-stop work in the observatory, he also said it can compete with the world's most advanced countries in the area in terms of knowledge, personnel, and devices. Ozener also said Turkey and Japan finalized a joint project under which Marmara Sea will be monitored with seismometers at a ...

Turkey is planning to develop the world's biggest offshore wind plant, the country's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Berat Albayrak has announced. The scheme was proposed during the Forum of Energy and Mines conference on February 22. Albayrak gave no details of the project, other than to ...

Mentioning the non-stop work in the observatory, he also said it can compete with the world's most advanced countries in the area in terms of knowledge, personnel, and devices. Ozener also said Turkey and Japan finalized a joint project under which Marmara Sea will be monitored with seismometers at a ...

But he escaped the gallows when Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2004 as part of its bid to join the European Union and his term commuted to life imprisonment. Ocalan is currently serving out the remaining years of his life on the heavily fortified island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara off Istanbul.

Ocalan is currently serving out the remaining years of his life on the heavily fortified island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara off Istanbul. This photo taken on February 24, 2018 in the town of Al-Muabbadah in the far northeastern corner of Syria shows Kurds holding flags bearing the portrait of Kurdistan ...

In Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits in Marmara Sea 127 shipwreck cases were registered in 2017, resulting in 28 killed, 15 missing and 397 saved, the document noted. “In Aegean Sea, 43 shipwreck cases were registered in 2017, resulting in 35 killed, 8 missing and 468 saved,” the report of Turkish ...

I heard the best time to explore the city is in the summer, when colorful tulips are in full bloom and cruise ships on the 31-kilometer long Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara while splitting Istanbul into two continents — Asia and Europe, operate in full swing. But I was ...

Peaches. History, comedy, a ski resort, and candied chestnuts. What foggy metropolis just a few hours south of Istanbul might I be thinking of? Is it that relaxing natural city on the Marmara Sea? That powerhouse of industry? The former and first Ottoman capital? Yes, that's right, the Seattle of Turkey – Bursa.

The platform bearing a Panama flag entered the Bosporus from the Sea of Marmara at 10:45 a.m., where water was added into the vessel to lower it so it could pass under the July 15 Martyrs ... After working to lower it for nearly five hours, the oil rig turned around and headed back toward the Marmara Sea.

The Sea of Marmara, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean via the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, has turned orange due to a natural ... color, leading outwards into the Marmara Sea, due to a multiplication of a special kind of plankton which cannot be seen with the bare eye, scientists say.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Turkey's main opposition party (CDP) leader poses for The Associated Press, backdropped by the Sea of Marmara in Istanbul, Saturday, April 21, 2018, ahead of early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, a year and a half ahead of the initially scheduled November ...

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Turkey's main opposition party (CDP) leader poses for The Associated Press, backdropped by the Sea of Marmara in Istanbul, Saturday, April 21, 2018, ahead of early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, a year and a half ahead of the initially scheduled November ...

It is also a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosphorus strait (which separates Europe and Asia) between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. ... ''Rush hour traffic'' noted my guide before pointing out the Marina side of the Marmara sea with all its glittering high rise apartments which he said ...

Flanked by assistants, Halima Aden, centre, a hijab wearing model from the United States, looks at the results of a fashion photo-shoot for Modanisa, an online retailer of modest fashion, in Buyukada, the largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Aden ...

It begins at the bottom of a street that once coursed with the runoffs of flowing valleys and waterfront bluffs descending to the turquoise marine nexus of the Bosporus strait, the Golden Horn inlet, and the Marmara Sea. As the quasi-blind Irish writer James Joyce once joked with quips of the pen, "Riverrun, ...

But he escaped the gallows when Turkey abolished capital punishment in 2004 as part of its bid to join the European Union and his term commuted to life imprisonment. Ocalan is currently serving out the remaining years of his life on the heavily fortified island of Imrali in the Sea of Marmara off Istanbul.

European investment is vital to many of Turkey's construction “mega-projects”, such as a huge airport scheduled to open in Istanbul this October, the recently completed Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge across the Bosporus and a planned canal connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea. The contracts ...