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VIDEO SHOWS: FORMULA ONE DRIVERS ALEXANDER ALBON AND PIERRE GASLY DRIVING ACROSS THE BOSPHORUS BRIDGE / SOUNDBITES FROM ALBON, GASLY AND SCUDERIA ALPHATAURI TEAM PRINCIPAL FRANZ TOST SHOWS ...
In 1973, the Bosphorus Bridge was completed connecting Europe and Asia. The suspension bridge was the first of three spanning the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey.
In a recent blog post, I suggested Turkey is turning into a "constructocracy," with an economy driven by the construction sector and ruled by a government that never met a large infrastructure or ...
15 July Martyrs Bridge: Known to locals as the Boğaziçi Köprüsü, or the First Bridge, this was the first modern structure to cross the Straits between Asia and Europe when it opened in 1973.
The Bosphorus Bridge connects Europe and Asia at Istanbul but costs just 36p to cross. ... Three bridges cross the strait, with the first - the Martyrs’ Bridge - built in 1973; ...
To see the Bosphorus for the first time was a very enjoyable and memorable experience.” The 1,510-metre, gravity-anchored suspension bridge was closed on one side for 20 minutes last Tuesday ...
A third bridge spanning Istanbul’s Bosphorus waterway opened Friday with a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. “We are connecting continents ...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Turkey launched construction Wednesday of a third bridge linking its European and Asian shores, the latest in a slew of multi-billion-dollar projects that Prime Minister ...
In 1973, the first bridge connecting Europe and Asia was completed. ... The first Bosphorus Bridge. Up next. The 1980 Turkey coup. The 1993 MAD hijack 'The streets of Harare were littered with money' ...