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The cable-stayed bridge, the first to be constructed along the route of Canal İstanbul, will reportedly be built to provide a crossing around Sazlıdere in Edirne province as part of the Northern Marmara Highway.

Erdoğan Aydın, a historian and researcher on Turkey’s Alevis, told bianet that Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim marked the symbol of the annihilation of Alevis - a group that constituted half of Anatolian population in the 16th century.