"3 billion YTL to be spent on improving Istanbul streams
Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, stated that 3 billion New Turkish Lira (YTL) was to be invested in approximately 140 stream improvement schemes along the coast of the city of Istanbul, in order to take them up to the ‘Blue Flag’ standard of the European Union. Topbaş also indicated that the bays of Bebek, Tarabya and Istinye, along the coast of the European side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, were to be transformed into yacht marinas.
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