Bodrum

Turkey is set to welcome the new year under a four-day lockdown, spanning from tonight 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Jan. 4 as part of measures against COVID-19.

The authorities this month had re-introduced weekend lockdowns as well as nighttime curfews amid a spike in infections and deaths.

A restoration project has been implemented to unravel the Halicarnassus Walls, which were built by the Karian Satrap Mausolos 2,400 years ago in Bodrum, under the scope of which salvage excavation, cleaning and landscaping works have been ongoing.

COVID-19-associated hospitalization rate has been declining but severe infection care is rising in Turkey, the health minister has said.
"There has been a 32 percent decline in hospitalization over the past three days," Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter on Aug. 11.

The International Bodrum Jazz festival will be held between Sept. 1 and 9 with the support of the Jazz Association and Muğla Metropolitan Municipality.

September was chosen for the event because July and August were already high season in the Aegean province of Muğla's Bodrum district and organizers wanted to bring an activity at the end of the tourist season.

Kittens, rescued unconsciously from a fire in a container, came back to life thanks to the firefighters' artificial respiration and CPR intervention.

The firefighters, who intervened in a fire cardboard container of a market in the resort town of Bodrum, noticed that there were four kittens in the container.

The newest edition of the İncili (Pearly) Gastronomy Guide 2020 was launched on Feb. 25 at a ceremony held at Shangri-La Bosphorus Hotel in Istanbul, unveiling the best restaurants of Turkey.

The guide, which has become prestigious in the gastronomy world within a very short time, has been prepared in a collaboration between daily Hürriyet and porcelain maker Karaca.

Jeff Bezos, the founder of online retailer giant Amazon and one of the world's richest people, is claimed to be exploring investment opportunities in the popular Turkish holiday resort town of Bodrum.

Firefighters battled a fire that consumed scrubland near the popular southwestern resort town of Bodrum on July 16.

Turkish firefighters are battling a fire that has consumed a scrubland near the southwestern resort town of Bodrum on July 12.

In a bid to stop illegal construction works in Turkey's world-famous resort town of Bodrum, local municipality workers have demolished a deluxe building overlooking the Güvercinlik Bay.