Istanbul’s Bosporus strait closed to shipping traffic due to heavy smog

TIN news: Istanbul port authority aounced on Saturday that the Bosporus strait was both ways closed to shipping traffic as of 12.58 p.m. due to heavy smog. As physical conditions did not prevail for a safe passage through the Strait, the port authority said that they temporarily halted the shipping traffic from and to the Black Sea. Turkey’s weste and northe regions have been gripped by heavy snowfall since Thursday, after months of relatively warm temperatures. The bad weather brought a strin ...