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In İstanbul, the most populous city of the country, the snowfall will start on Wednesday night and is expected to continue until Monday.

All flights have been canceled at İstanbul Airport since yesterday. Passengers had to sleep on cardboards. Riot police have been deployed as tourists started chanting slogans.

Traffic has stopped in 115 locations on the country's highways while roads to more than 700 villages have been closed due to snowfall and blizzards, according to the authorities.