Anamur

A Roman-era female statue unearthed in the ancient city of Anemurium in southern Türkiye is an exciting find for the archaeology team.

The forest fire in the southern province of Mersin's Anamur district has been extinguished in six hours with the intervention of a large number of aerial and ground teams, while a total of 51 decares in area was damaged in the fire.

Breaking out in a wooded area in Anamur at around 1:30 a.m. on July 10, the fire spread over a wide area in a short time.

A Roman Bath, which was built in the fifth century A.D. and used for 200 years, has been restored in the ancient port city Anemurium, located on a 600-hectare area in the southern province of Mersin. While the cleaning and restoration works of the floor mosaic in the dressing room of the bath continue, this year the bath started to host visitors.

A Caretta caretta that was struggling for life as it had ingested plastic debris, causing it gastrointestinal problems, has been released into the sea after getting treatment for one-and-a-half years and has traveled 600 kilometers (372 miles) since then.

Entering three famous beaches in the southern province of Antalya at night between 8 p.m. to sunrise has been banned with the start of the nesting season of the endangered Caretta caretta.

Those disobeying the rule on Çıralı, Olimpos and Patara beaches will be fined 109,785 Turkish Liras ($6,699).

A family living in the western province of Denizli out of the blue has inherited a field with banana greenhouses worth 4 million Turkish Liras ($536,000) from their grandfather, whom they believed to have died in the First World War.

The family living in the Geriçam Village, experienced the surprise of a lifetime when they received a notification from the State Hydraulic Works (DSİ).

The fresh water supply from Turkey to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) has suffered a disruption, Turkey's agriculture and forestry minister said on Jan. 11. 

Bekir Pakdemirli told reporters in Turkey's southern Mersin province that the Turkey-TRNC water pipeline didn't break and that the reason for the disruption has yet to be ascertained.

A group of locals on July 24 protested against a public meeting scheduled to seek input on the draft environmental impact assessment ("ÇED" in Turkish) for the construction of a potential fish farm in the Meleç Bay of the southern Mersin province's Anamur district.

A Turkish minesweeping ship passed through the Isthmus of Corinth on Sunday, according to a video posted on the internet by local media. 

The TCG Anamur can be seen in the video crossing through the channel as crowds of locals and tourists look on.  

The mayors of two Turkish districts have said they will impose bans on a latest film by Mahsun Kırmızıgül from being screened in movie theaters in their districts.