Constantinople

• The regional stakeholder meeting in Istanbul gathered 30 participants, including senior Christian and Muslim faith leaders, along with select representatives from faith-based organizations.
• These recommendations will form the basis of global advocacy efforts aimed at shaping the agenda of the 2023 G20 Summit and beyond.
• The IAFSC aims to facilitate the building of bridges between key stakeholders including faith communities, NGOs and experts in various domains.
• The IAFSC is conscious of the importance of empowering faith leaders, both at the institutional and grass-root levels, with knowledge, and to mobilize them to play a more active role in community safety.

• But it turns out calculating exactly when and where we can watch an eclipse in its full glory can be surprisingly hard.
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Watching the Sun and the Moon

• Being so dominant in the sky, the Sun and the Moon were the most captivating celestial bodies for ancient cultures to observe.
• While the Sun’s movement is quite simple, the Moon moves across the sky with much more complexity.
• During a lunar eclipse, where Earth blocks sunlight that would otherwise illuminate a full moon, the dimmed Moon takes on a bloody hue.

The not-so-mythical Saros cycle

• This 18-year cycle, which can persist as a sequence for over a thousand years, is now known as a Saros cycle.
• The Saros cycle represents how long it takes for the Sun-Earth-Moon system to return to almost exactly the same triangular configuration.
• This is much more frequent than an 18-year Saros cycle, and is possible because multiple repeating Saros sequences overlap at once (roughly a dozen), each offset by at least six months.
• After about a thousand years, when one long-term Saros sequence ends, another will begin with slightly different timing.

From antiquity to modern day

• Yes, if we are talking about lunar eclipses, and perhaps even partial solar eclipses.
• That is, they wouldn’t have predicted that 18 years later (567 BCE) a total solar eclipse was visible in what is now the United States.
• But significantly, it could not predict total solar eclipses at a precise place on Earth – just their timing.
• Entering the modern era of science, the first true prediction of a total solar eclipse (both in time and location) occurred in 1715.

• ISTANBUL, July 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Turkey Maritime Summit, to be held for the first time under the leadership of the T.R.
• The maritime sector, which has had the biggest role in international transportation since antiquity, is increasing its share in parallel with the increasing trade volume, especially with its environmentalist approach.
• Istanbul Canal is one of the freshest and biggest examples of the importance we give to our seas and the maritime sector.
• We will be the playmaker country in world maritime trade with Istanbul Canal, which is Turkey's strategic move with its location, function and areas of influence.

• ISTANBUL, June 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Stating that the Canal Istanbul will leave its mark in history as a guarantee of the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Turkey, Adil Karaismailolu, the Minister of Transport said: "With the Canal, Turkey will be among the world's leading logistics powers.
• Turkey will become a playmaker in global maritime trade."
• The ground of the first bridge of the Canal Istanbul, Turkey's strategic move, is being broken on Saturday, June 26.
• As a country that dominates the most important trade corridors of the developing world, Turkey will become the world's most important logistics centre with the Canal Istanbul.