Ağrı

Turkey's eastern Ağrı province attracts migratory birds even in winter. (Source: AA)

Some 5-meter long icicles hanging from rocks are seen during the winter season in eastern Ağrı province. (AA Photo)

Turkey has completed an 81-kilometer (50-mile) security wall along its eastern border with Iran, the interior minister said on Dec. 4. 

Süleyman Soylu shared the news on Twitter along with pictures of the wall, located in the eastern Ağrı province.

Villagers in the eastern province of Ağrı are making a living fishing like Eskimos until the end of March, when the weather warms up in the high-altitude ice-covered Fish Lake. (AA Photo)

With over 1,000 personnel, Turkey has launched a new anti-terror operation in three eastern provinces, the Interior Ministry announced on March 13.
In a statement, the ministry said Operation Trap-8 Mt. Ararat-Çemce-Madur aims to neutralize all terrorists hiding out in the regions of Mt. Ağrı (Ararat), Cemce, and Madur located in the eastern provinces of Ağrı, Kars, Iğdır. 

Turkey's eastern provinces are struggling with record colds. In some places, temperatures dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius and snowstorms hindered the search for 13 migrants who disappeared in the Van City area, Sabah newspaper reported.

Eastern Turkey is usually the coldest part of the country in winter, but even for these areas, the reported values are unusually low.

An endangered butterfly was photographed 50 years later at an altitude of 3,800 meters on eastern Mount Ağrı by two experts.

At least two people were killed and 30 others injured on Sept. 6 when a bus carrying irregular migrants overturned in Turkey's
eastern province of Ağrı, security sources said.

At least two PKK terrorists were "neutralized" in the eastern province of Ağrı on July 21, according to the Turkish Defense Ministry.

Sportswear giant Nike will set up a factory in the eastern Turkish province of Ağrı, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.