The so called Black Sea Straits, connect the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea via the Sea of Marmara. The only Black Sea ports can access the Mediterranean. Photo: AFP Turkey has said that the ...

a narrow strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. While today the shoreline lies around four miles away, in antiquity Troy’s proximity to the sea was an ...

and connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and, by extension, to the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. It will spilt the European side of Istanbul, forming an island between Asia and Europe.

For months, the surface waters of Turkey’s Sea of Marmara have been full of a viscous substance colloquially referred to as “sea snot.” The cloudy muck, formally referred to as marine mucilage, has ...