It spans the narrowest point of the Bosphorus strait, where Persian King Darius I was said to have built a floating bridge in 512 B.C.E. The traffic deck of the modern incarnation hangs around 200 ...

The suspension bridge was the first of three spanning the Bosphorus Strait. Show more In 1973, the Bosphorus Bridge was completed connecting Europe and Asia. The suspension bridge was the first of ...

Renamed Martyrs' Bridge in July 2016 after an attempted coup in Turkey when a Turkish army faction occupied the crossing, the structure is one of three bridges across the Bosphorus. This strait ...

ISTANBUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Ship traffic in Turkey's Bosphorus Strait is ... around the Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge area during its passage through the strait and tugs were dispatched for assistance.

Between them runs the Bosphorus Strait, a narrow body of water that ... continents in just three minutes over the 15 July Martyrs Bridge, also called the “First Bridge.” ...

designed to allow traffic to cross the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia and ease congestion in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan oversaw a ceremony inaugurating the $3 billion (more ...

A third bridge spanning Istanbul’s Bosphorus waterway opened Friday with ... Marmara and another Europe-Asia bridge at the Canakkale Strait. The president used the occasion to attack Daesh ...