The owner of the construction company has tried to calm people by explaining that construction will interrupt neither the plantation nor the Bosphorus skyline, but few believe him.

It s in my hand on this occasion as I look out over the Bosphorus on a glittering March morning.

The Bosphorus, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, is about twenty five kilometers long and averages 1.5 kilometers in width but narrows in places to less than 1000 meters.

After Admiral Kolchak took command (August 1916), the Russian fleet mined the exit from the Bosporus, preventing nearly all Ottoman ships from entering the Black Sea.

According to Reuters full blown upheaval in Turkey began at around 19.30 local time when reports of army personnel closing down access points to the main Bosporus bridge in the country's biggest city, Istanbul, started circulating online.

In 941, they appeared on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, but this time they were crushed, an indication of the improvements in the Byzantine military position after 907, when only diplomacy had been able to push back the invaders.

The Alevis, who had been protected by the secular Kemalist state, deeply distrust Erdoğan, who further unsettled them by planning to name a new bridge over the Bosphorus after a sixteenth century sultan who massacred their forebears.

But after the suicide bomb attack that took place in Taksim, in the heart of Istanbul, on that Saturday morning, I, like millions living in the city, didn't dare to go out, and ended up not seeing many of my friends.