At about ten past seven on the evening of 11 October 2026, the Maltese-flagged tanker Ivyan lost her engine in the middle of the Bosporus. The 100-metre ship was carrying about 6,000 tonnes of vegetable oil from Varna to Italy, and with no propulsion she began to drift towards…
On 13 October 2026 Turkey's transport ministry said it wanted to put Canal Istanbul out to tender and start building "as soon as possible". It gave…
Every warship that wants to pass the Bosporus is governed by a treaty signed in a Swiss lakeside town in July 1936, before radar, before aircraft…
On 2 March 2026 the Russian minesweeper Valentin Pikul sank at its berth in Novorossiysk, according to Ukraine's defence ministry. It wasn't a famous…
In Beykoz, on the Asian shore near the Bosporus's northern end, Turkey has set up the headquarters for the navy of a peace that doesn't exist yet. On…
