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A Turkish court sentences ISIL militant Abdulkadir Masharipov to life imprisonment, plus an additional 1,368 years in prison, for killing 39 people and injuring 79 more at an Istanbul nightclub in 2017.
2020-09-7

Muslims hold their first Friday prayers in the historic Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, for the first time since the government annulled the 1934 decision to establish it as a museum, and reclassified the building as a mosque.
2020-07-24

Turkish authorities declare a forest wildfire near Istanbul to be the result of terrorism. They say a suspect is in custody.
2019-09-21

A court in Istanbul issues a warrant for the seizure of MV "Vitaspirit", a Maltese tanker that crashed into a historic waterfront mansion on the Bosphorus on April 7, until the mansion's owners receive US$50 million.
2018-04-10

A helicopter crash in Istanbul kills five and injures seven.
2018-04-6

The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul launches an investigation into 17 United States citizens in connection with the 2016 Turkish "coup d'état" attempt.
2017-04-15

In an unusual show of unity, tens of thousands of supporters of Turkey's ruling party and the country's main opposition parties hold a cross-party "Republic and Democracy" rally in support of democracy in Istanbul's central Taksim Square.
2016-07-24

An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, kills five people, including two dual citizenship Israeli-Americans and one Iranian citizen, and injures several dozen others.
2016-03-19

Istanbul police, after a standoff, shoot and kill two women from the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front suspected of ambushing a riot police station in the Bayrampaşa neighborhood on the city’s European side. Two policemen were injured.
2016-03-3

A pipe bomb explodes on a Bayrampaşa overpass near the city's central metro station in suburban Istanbul, Turkey leaving five people injured.
2015-12-1