Balikesir

A forest fire broke out at four different spots around the Mount Ida (Kazdağları) in the Edremit district of the western province of Balıkesir on Aug. 9.

A high school student in the Edremit district of the northwestern province of Balıkesir has developed a software that translates speech into sign language by using Google's "Speech to Text" open source codes.

A fire destroyed two decares of forests in the coastal district of Ayvalık in the Marmara province of Balıkesir on June 26, Doğan News Agency has reported. 
 
The fire is believed to have been started accidentally during a picnic, and gendarmerie forces have detained two people in relation to it. 

The withdrawal of a controversial draft law on olive groves has blocked a $25 billion port investment in a district of the Aegean province of Balıkesir, provincial mayor Ahmet Edip Uğur told daily Habertürk on June 21.

A family found an unexploded mortar shell in their house premises during an ongoing construction work in the western province of Balıkesir on June 11, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Some 45 percent of young Turkish females aged between 15 and 24 consented to arranged marriages while 35.3 percent had married husbands of their own choice in 2016, according to a report published by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) on May 16.

Some 12 people were slightly injured after a container ship sank off the Marmara province of Balıkesir's coast during loading on May 14, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The container ship named "Ali Ağa, which arrived at the Bandırma Port from the Aegean province of İzmir's Aliağa district, sank after the loading process went wrong on the afternoon of May 14. 

Some 3,000 police officers who were dismissed with previous statutory decrees can now be reinstated, as archives seized during an anti-Gülen operation showed that they were in fact blacklisted by the Gülen movement, widely believed to have orchestrated the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.

Three more Turkish sites have been included in UNESCO's tentative list of world heritage, bringing the total number of Turkish properties on the list up to 72, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism stated on May 6.

An investigation will be opened regarding a ceremonial guard of honor for main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu at a military base in the northwestern province of Balıkesir on April 13, Defense Minister Fikri Işık said yesterday.