On 13 February 2026 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came to Boğaziçi University to open a dormitory. To receive him, the university shut its own campus. Classes went online. Students living in the dormitories were told to leave their rooms in the morning for security screening, and only…
For most of Istanbul's history the only way across the Bosporus was a boat. The first bridge opened on 30 October 1973, timed for the 50th…
Istanbul's waterfront neighbourhoods are often described as villages, and from a ferry they look like it: mosques by the water, wooden houses…
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…
Where the Golden Horn meets the Bosporus, on the shore below the Galata Tower, Istanbul has handed 1.2 kilometres of its waterfront to a private…
Ships entering the Bosporus from the Sea of Marmara pass under a skyline that has hardly changed in five centuries: Topkapı Palace on the point, and…
Two railway stations face each other across the southern mouth of the Bosporus. On the European side, under the walls of Topkapı, is Sirkeci, the old…
On 14 October 2026 Ekrem İmamoğlu stood up in a courtroom inside the Silivri prison complex, west of Istanbul, and began a four-day defence. He had…
In September 2022 a video went round Turkish social media showing a ferry passing the Maiden's Tower, Kız Kulesi, on its rock off Üsküdar. Something…
