By Akin Nazli in Belgrade A Turkish man named Kahraman K. has taken over Turkey-based company Shurak Al Ajdad Gayrimenkul ...

Canal Istanbul “will transform the city’s topography, environment, and urban landscape,” says Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey. The project ...

The new waterway would stretch for 45km (28 ... Environmentalists warn of catastrophe. The canal could destroy Istanbul’s main reservoirs, raze much of its remaining forest and cover yet more ...

Russia, in particular, is not convinced of the benefits of the Istanbul Canal, as it fears the new canal would allow NATO vessels a more direct route to the Black Sea.

The route for Canal Istanbul, along with most of the new airport, sits in areas set aside in the city’s master plan, or reserved by the federal government for housing any displaced people from ...

The project is a new 45 kilometre shipping canal running just west of Istanbul’s two airports on the outskirts of the city, from the Black Sea in the north to the Marmara Sea in the south.

Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu held a news conference in Istanbul on Wednesday to detail the many professional objections to a multibillion-dollar canal bisecting Istanbul that’s meant to siphon off ...

Istanbul New Airport, on shores of the Black Sea ... and European shores and Erdogan's yet-to-start plans for a man-made canal parallel to the Bosporus strait are also impacting the environment.

When complete, the canal in Turkey’s largest city will divert maritime traffic from the heavily used Bosporus Strait shipping channel by serving as the new main shipping route between the Black Sea ...