Terror Fear at Bosphorus Bridge

- The big Bosphorus Bridge over the eponymous strait in Istanbul on Tuesday was closed for some time for fear of terrorists. Police closed the bridge after allegedly jumped a man from a car.

Which would then have stepped into another car and driven away. Turkish media reported that there has been investigated a vehicle on the bridge by the bomb squad, but nothing has been found barends unrest. The bridge was reopened to traffic.

Turkey has recently been plagued by a series of attacks perpetrated by Sunni extremists, and extremists from the ranks of Kurdish nationalists and far-left groups.