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Many rivers to cross: Ismail Akpinar helps 3-4 ships navigate the Bosporus every day (The Washington Post/Nicole Tung) The vessel was its own threat: a loaded liquid petroleum gas tanker that would ...

A cargo ship has crashed into a historic mansion on Istanbul's Bosporus strait, severely damaging the building. Turkey's official Anadolu news agency said the Maltese-flagged cargo ship had a ...

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday announced what he called a "crazy and magnificent" plan to build a new waterway to the Black Sea, promising that the tanker-clogged Bosporus ...

Maritime traffic through the Bosporus Strait, which was suspended due to a vessel malfunction, returned to normal late Wednesday. The BARLAS, a 70-meter-long (230-foot-long) dry cargo vessel, ...

The implosion of the USSR suddenly opened up the former Soviet Union’s energy assets to western investment. Of these, the most important was the Caspian basin, whose 143,244 square miles and attendant ...

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