Turkey's General Directorate

Turkish airports saw 193.6 million air passengers in total last year, serving 4.7 percent of passengers traveling through world airports, according to data compiled by state-run Anadolu Agency, citing Turkey's General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMİ).

Turkey's Forest and Waterworks minister has said the country's fire response time has decreased from 40 minutes in 2003 to 15 minutes in 2015, dramatically diminishing the amount of forest land destructed in each fire. 

Scores of domestic and international flights have been canceled by Turkish airline companies amid heavy snow in Istanbul, which began falling late Jan. 17.

Turkish Airlines, the country's national flag-carrier, announced it canceled some 151 scheduled flights due to "expected meteorological incidents and heavy snowfall" in Istanbul's Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports. 

Bad winter weather hit flights and ferry services in Turkey's largest province Istanbul on Jan. 7.

Turkish Airlines flights and ferry services have been cancelled because of strong southwesterly winds.

The country's national flag carrier announced early on Jan. 7 that it had cancelled over 70 domestic and international flights because of the conditions.

A prosecution office has closed the case of a bridge collapse in Turkey's northern province of Zonguldak in 2012 which killed 15 people, as no permission was given for an investigation into the responsible state institutions which were found guilty in an expert report. 

The levels of the Tundzha and Maritsa (Tunca and Meriç) rivers passing through the Turkish city of Edirne, which borders Bulgaria, have seen a sudden and rapid rise, with the local authorities taking measures against potential flooding.

The Tundzha and Maritsa continued to rise at an alarming rate on March 9, amid snowfall in neighboring Bulgaria and heavy rain gripping Edirne.