A little good news for Istanbul: “Municipality rejects permit for construction in Istanbul forest

Municipality rejects permit for construction in Istanbul forest Hurriyet Daily News A local municipality has refused to grant permission for a construction project in Fatih Forest Police school in upmarket Istanbul area closed, rekindling fraud claims on land property A police school in Istanbul’s upmarket neighborhood of Etiler was closed by a Cabinet decision in a move … Read more

Telegraph’s Istanbul’s best shops… Istanbul news roundup…

  Istanbul to get much-needed metro network: Mayor Istanbul?s metro network will finally expand to reach the level of those in global cities by 2019, the ambitious metro plans unveiled by mayor show Cable cars to cross the Bosphorus Three lines of cable cars are set to be unveiled across the Istanbul Bosphorus, connecting the … Read more