Women passengers in Turkey's largest city Istanbul will enjoy a new privilege in city buses as of Friday night. Female passengers traveling on a bus after 10 p.m. will be able to ask the driver to ...

Bussing, Leyland and Renault-Scemia – they were all the witnesses to Istanbul's 20th century evolution from small city to metropolis – and now they are coming back. Aiming to draw both Istanbulites ...

On a cold night in Istanbul, Hani al-Hassan sat on the street with his wife and child waiting for the buses that will take them for free to the Turkish-Greek border, from where the family plans to ...

Departing with the idea of “creating more green space”, Istanbul’s Public Transport Authorities launched a line with a “botanic bus” - a vehicle with various plants on its top. Departing with the idea ...

Istanbul's busy Metrobus route - where buses run in segregated lanes - is the first to get panic buttons ByNews from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring ...

The week's strange travel news. Maybe a quick bus on the cheek? In 1999, a Turkish man named Mahir became an Internet hit with his website declaring, "I kiss you!" Today, travellers on Istanbul buses ...

Buses running on the city's major Metrobus route, which carries about 700,000 passengers per day, are the first to have the buttons installed, the Daily Sabah website reports. Hitting the alarm alerts ...

Istanbul's public transport operator has started fitting buses with panic buttons in an attempt to improve passenger safety. Buses running on the city's major Metrobus route, which carries about ...