Antalya

A Turkish transsexual woman, who was a soldier before living as a woman, died following gender reassignment surgery in a hospital in the southern province of Antalya on Jan. 20, according to reports.

Turkey will host a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in the southern province of Antalya between May 13 and 14.

Turkey previously hosted meetings of NATO foreign and defense ministers in 1994 and 2010 respectively, and the NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government in 2004.

Storms and heavy rainfall caused flooding in Turkey?s southwest on Jan. 13, killing one person in the province of Mu?la.

Ali Kaplan, 62, died after being caught in the flood waters near the resort town of Köyce?iz along the Mediterranean coast.

Tuanna Aras, a 5-year-old who tried to comfort her crying, laid-off father during a protest in the coastal province of Antalya, has made headlines, as 200 private guards at the municipality have continued labor action demanding their jobs back.

Organizers of the Dosso Dossi Fashion Show, which will be held in the southern province of Antalya on Jan. 9, have announced that they have canceled their contract with the top Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio, after being unable to reach the model for over a week.

A Turkish imam who sings in a rock band and attracted considerable media attention after releasing an album last year, has announced that Saudi Arabia refused to grant his request for a visa ahead of a scheduled concert in the Gulf country.

The Santa Claus Museum in Antalya's Demre is the most visited place by tourists, especially the French, in the whole region. It is followed by the ancient city of Myra In the first nine months of 2014, 2.6 million Turkish and foreign people visited the ancient sites in the southern province of Antalya. It is expected that this figure reached 2.8 million by the end of the year.
 

Santa Claus is a citizen of Turkey – or he would have been if he was living today. In the third century, he was known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, today’s city of Demre in the province of Antalya. So he was one of us. Yet Santa brings no gifts to his fellow citizens this year. Instead, a pattern is now emerging around the Turkish economy for the year to come.

Syrian families who worked as agricultural workers in the southern province of Antalya were attacked by a group of locals on Dec. 23 upon rumors that local workers were beaten by Syrians, following the Antalya governor's recent statements concerning deporting Syrians from the city.

Turkish agriculture sector producers, who had raised their hopes of taking a larger share in the Russian market due to Moscow's political rows with Europe, are now paying the price of advanced sales in the ruble, the Russian currency that is currently in free fall.