In Sazlibosna village, along the planned route of the vast Canal Istanbul project, 68-year-old Yasar Demirkaya fidgets with ...

The construction work for Canal İstanbul started with the groundbreaking of a bridge over the planned canal route on June 26, a decade after Erdoğan announced it as "my crazy project." Meanwhile, ...

ISTANBUL, March 26 (Reuters) - Turkey held its first tender on Thursday to prepare to build a huge canal on the edge of Istanbul, a Transport Ministry spokesman said, signaling progress on the project ...

Land prices are booming in Sazlibosna. Over a tulip-shaped glass of tea in one of the village’s cafes, local governor Oktay Teke says that a few years ago, a square meter of land here in the farming ...

Prosecutors in Turkey announced dozens more arrests Saturday as part of an ongoing corruption probe, denounced by opposition leaders as a pretext to remove resistance to an ambitious Istanbul canal ...

İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener has announced that İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is currently facing an administrative investigation over his objection to the Canal İstanbul project.

The 'Istanbul' canal project is of great importance for all countries using the Turkish straits, Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoglu said in an exclusive interview ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan has revived plans to dig a canal on the edge of Istanbul despite opposition from hundreds of petitioners and the city's new mayor against the kind of mega ...

Istanbul’s opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu told BIRN that scientists’ warnings about the environmental consequences of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s controversial Canal Istanbul mega-project must ...

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday took the first step in the construction of a ship canal skirting Istanbul that the government says will ease marine traffic in the ...

People wearing masks to help protect against the spread of coronavirus, walk, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Nov. 15, 2020. Turkish health ministry statistics show 93 people died Friday of COVID-19 amid a ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has approved development plans for a huge canal on the edge of Istanbul, Environment Minister Murat Kurum said on Saturday, advancing a project which has attracted ...