Participants in the Bosphorus Cross Continental Swim completed a 6.5km (four mile) course - considered one of the world's best open water swimming races and the only intercontinental swimming contest.

ANKARA, February 25. /TASS/. Ankara may close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to warships, but Russia will still have the right to use them for the return of its fleet to its base ...

ANKARA, December 26. /TASS/. The transit of ships through the Bosphorus Strait has been suspended in both directions due to the malfunction of the Panamanian-flagged tanker Cordelia Moon en route ...