Tag: Sea of Marmara

• Friday, November 21st 2014 - 06:40 UTC

  Gallipoli campaign to be remembered in London, Turkey and Portsmouth

  

  Three days of international commemorations in London, Turkey and Portsmouth will remember the bitter Gallipoli campaign, 100 years after men stormed the Dardanelles.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2013 - 07:13 UTC

  Turkey opens railway tunnel linking the Asian and European continents

  

  A railway tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Strait has been opened in Turkey, creating a new link between the Asian and European shores of Istanbul. The Marmaray tunnel is the world's first connecting two continents, and is designed to withstand earthquakes.