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The caliph of the Islamic State Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is arrested in Istanbul, Turkey.
2022-05-26

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inaugurates the Taksim Mosque in Istanbul. Its construction was considered controversial as its location was considered to be secular space, with earlier plans to build it near Gezi Park contributing to protests in 2013.
2021-05-28

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

MV "Vitaspirit", a 225-meter cargo ship, crashes into a 200-year-old historic coastal mansion on the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey after an engine failure during a voyage from Russia to Saudi Arabia.
2018-04-7

Abdulkadir Masharipov is charged with murder in relation to the shootings in Istanbul that killed 39 people and is remanded in custody. Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has claimed responsibility for the shootings.
2017-02-11

Turkey opens the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge in Istanbul, one of the world's biggest suspension bridges.
2016-08-26

Turkish police shoot two attackers outside Istanbul’s central police headquarters, killing one of them. The exchange of fire wounds two officers.
2015-04-1

An explosion in a shop in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, leaves many injured.
2014-07-12

Foreign ministers of the Arab League meet in Istanbul, Turkey, to show their support for the Syrian opposition groups and Palestinians.
2012-12-1

Five people are killed and 12 injured in a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey. Kurdish rebels later claim responsibility for the attack.
2010-06-22