TEHRAN, oct 10_Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has cancelled his pre-planned trip to the Turkish city of Istanbul after Ankara announced the beginning of its military offensive against Kurds in northern Syria.
TEHRAN, oct 3_Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and dozens of activists have attended a justice-demanding vigil near Saudi Arabia’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul on the first anniversary of Khashoggi’s gruesome murder, which is believed to have taken place on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s direct order.
TEHRAN, Jul 10 - It's been more than 250 years since the last major earthquake struck Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. Though the nearby fault system has been silent for two-and-a-half centuries, new research suggests the risk of another major quake is high.
TEHRAN, Jun 25 -The Turkish currency, the lira, has climbed some two percent against the US dollar as investors cheered an end to months of uncertainty over Istanbul’s mayoral elections.
TEHRAN, Jun 23 -Millions of Istanbul residents began voting on Sunday in a re-run of a mayoral election that has become a referendum on President Tayyip Erdogan’s policies and a test of Turkey’s ailing democracy.
TEHRAN, Jun 17 - The opposition candidate for mayor of Istanbul says he believes "the injustice" caused by the cancellation of his win in March will galvanize voters in his favor in Sunday's rerun election.
TEHRAN, May 17 - A Turkish court has sentenced fourteen people to life in prison without parole for involvement in twin deadly bombings in the country’s largest city of Istanbul in 2016.
TEHRAN, May 04 -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan signaled on Saturday he favors a re-run of a mayoral election in Istanbul which resulted in victory for the candidate of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).
TEHRAN, Apr 09-Turkey’s High Election Board has rejected an appeal by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to recount local election votes cast in 31 of Istanbul’s 39 districts amid a dispute over the outcome of the mayoral elections there, which has given the main opposition group a narrow victory over the AKP.
TEHRAN, Apr 03 - Turkish electoral authorities on Wednesday began recounting votes from Istanbul districts after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP challenged tallies showing an opposition candidate narrowly won a weekend local election.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday visited the disputed landmarks of Hagia Sophia and a now-closed seminary in Turkey, in a sign of detente in the neighboring countries' strained ties.
TEHRAN, Jan 27-A United Nations expert who has been assigned to investigate the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi says she has requested access to Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul, where the critic was brutally killed, but has not heard from Riyadh yet.
TEHRAN, October 29 - Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor has traveled to the Turkish city of Istanbul and met with the city's Chief Public Prosecutor Irfan Fidan for deliberations on the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabian agents inside Riyadh's consulate there.
TEHRAN, October 29 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif travelled to Istanbul for a trilateral meeting with his Turkish and Azeri counterparts.
TEHRAN, October 29 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Monday due to inaugurate Istanbul's new international airport, which his government claims will become the world's largest.