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    in the northwest and Istanbul in the southeast, and branches extending service to Athens, Brussels, and London. The Orient Express embarked on its initial...
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    consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and explosive...
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    Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic,...
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  • Actor in a Supporting Role (for Hurt). On vacation in Istanbul, Turkey, on 6 October 1970, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2 kg (4.4 lb) of...
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  • been published in the United States as Orient Express. After taking the Taurus Express from Aleppo to Istanbul, private detective Hercule Poirot arrives at...
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  • The Istanbul Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on hard court. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually...
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    Istanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTFM) is the larger of two international airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the Arnavutköy district...
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    0059000°N 28.9753972°E / 41.0059000; 28.9753972 On 12 January 2016, a suicide attack in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district killed 13 people, all foreigners...
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    The 2024 Istanbul church shooting (Turkish: 2024 İstanbul kilise saldırısı), was an attack by the Islamic State on the Church of Santa Maria, a Roman Catholic...
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  • stopped when a landslide blocks the line on the second night out from Istanbul, and American millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found stabbed to death the...
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  • December 1935, Hercule Poirot travels from Istanbul to London on the Orient Express. Other passengers include American socialite Harriet Hubbard; English governess...
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  • investigates a murder on the luxury Orient Express train service in the 1930s. Principal photography began in November 2016 in the United Kingdom; it is one of...
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    Ankara Istanbul Marmaris Adana Bitlis Denizli Kars Kocaeli Malatya Mersin Sakarya Şırnak On 15 July 2016 around 9 pm when most citizens were awake , a...
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  • The Istanbul pogrom, also known as the Istanbul riots, were a series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek...
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    Bosporus (redirect from Istanbul Bogazi)
    Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı, lit. 'Istanbul strait', colloquially Boğaz) is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul, Turkey...
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    The Istanbul Metro (Turkish: İstanbul metrosu) is a rapid transit railway network that serves the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Apart from the M11 line, which...
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    Kurdish nationalists carried out many attacks in Istanbul, including a suicide bombing attack in March 2016 in İstiklal Avenue, which killed five people....
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  • June 2016). "Turkey and the Islamic State appear to be headed toward outright war". The Washington Post. Cunningham, Erin (30 June 2016). "Istanbul airport...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of the town of Istanbul, Turkey. 1000 BCE - Thracian tribes founded the settlements of Lygos and Semistra. 657...
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    Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe opposing...
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  • soczu.com. "İstanbul Beylikdüzü'nde patlama". soczu.com. "Explosions in Istanbul as Angry Mobs Storm HDP Offices". The New Arab. 18 December 2016. Okan KONURALP...
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  • Billy Hayes (writer) (category 20th-century American criminals)
    1947) is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his...
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    Renzo Piano (category People associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art)
    Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), İstanbul Modern in Istanbul (2022) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016). He won...
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    Zeynep Tufekci (category Academics from Istanbul)
    born in Istanbul, Turkey, near Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district. In 1995, Tufekci received a B.A. in sociology from Istanbul University...
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    SKY Express (legally Cretan Aviation Operations Aviation and Commercial Societe Anonyme (Greek: Κρητικές Αεροπορικές Εκμεταλλεύσεις Αεροπορική και Εμπορική...
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  • From Russia with Love (film) (category Films set on the Orient Express)
    a desperate adventure of Bond with sinister characters in Istanbul and on the Orient Express is fictional exaggeration on a grand scale and in a dashing...
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    July 2016. Oliphant, Vickiie (18 July 2016). "Third American killed in Nice attack named as 20-year-old 'promising' university student". Express.co.uk...
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  • From Russia, with Love (novel) (category Novels set on the Orient Express)
    Soviet decoding machine. Much of the action takes place in Istanbul and on the Orient Express. The book was inspired by Fleming's visit to Turkey on behalf...
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  • Peking Express is a Dutch–Flemish reality game show that follows a series of couples as they hitchhike to or from Beijing (only in the first three seasons;...
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    Independence, the Turkish capital then moved to Ankara. Officially renamed Istanbul in 1930, the city is today the largest city in Europe, straddling the Bosporus...
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