Alanya

Alanya Castle, which was included on the UNESCO Tentative List in 2000, welcomes around 140,000 visitors a month. The castle in the southern province of Antalya's Alanya district was built in the Hellenistic era on an area of 10 hectares and is surrounded with six kilometers of walls. It hosted the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and the Ottoman civilizations for many years.

The Alanya district is the capital of Turkish tourism in the province of Antalya and is one of the most popular places for tourists visiting Turkey.

Two young people were killed in a traffic accident in the southern province of Antalya on Dec. 20 when a pickup ran over them as they were taking a selfie on the road.

LGBT inmates in a prison in the Mediterranean province of Antalya are living in one-person cells intended for those with life sentence despite light penalties of the former, with non-governmental organizations and civil rights groups calling the practice "a rights violation," daily Hürriyet has reported.

The number of foreigners living in the Mediterranean district of Alanya in Antalya province increased by 7.3 percent from the previous year to 34,532 by the end of 2014, according to the district?s Land Registry Cadaster. 

Most properties were owned Russians at around 5,712, followed by Norwegians with 5,616 and Germans with 4,337. 

A Diyarbakır court has ruled for the demolition of a statue of Mahsum Korkmaz, one of the founders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which was erected in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Aug. 16.