Balikesir

The Zeytinli Rock Festival kicked off on Aug. 29 in Edremit's Zeytinli Dalyan Beach in the western province of Balıkesir. The festival welcomed 32,000 music lovers on its first day. 

The seeds of fruits like olive, plum, peach and almond, along with the seeds of some medicinal plants from the skirts of the Mount Ida are crafted into jewelry by village women living in the northwestern province of Balıkesir's Edremit district.

The restoration of the Panagia Phaneromeni Church in the northwestern Turkish province of Balıkesir's evocative Ayvalık district has been completed. 

Veteran football players from Turkey’s Ayvalıkgücü Belediyespor and Pallesviakos, a Greek football club based on Lesbos Island, played a friendly match in the Ayvalık district of the western province of Balıkesir on Feb. 4.

A folk song composed by Turkey’s forestry minister will be used in a campaign to support the reforestation of burnt forest lands in the Ayvalık district of the western province of Balıkesir, daily Habertürk has reported.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that Turkey, Russia and Iran will meet regularly to discuss the Syrian crisis, as he commented on a recent trilateral meeting n the Black Sea resort of Sochi, the daily Hurriyet writes

Two men in two separate cases in Turkey opened fire on their former partners on Sept. 26, leading to the death of a six year-old girl in the western province of Balıkesir and the amputation of a woman's leg in the southern province of Gaziantep.

A group of local hunters joined the 95th anniversary celebrations marking the liberation of the northwestern town of Erdek from Greek occupation during Turkey's War of Independence, together with dead pigs that they hunted, Doğan News Agency reported on Sept. 25. 

A forest fire broke out on the historic Gallipoli peninsula in the western Turkish province of Çanakkale on Sept. 15.

The fire was reportedly ignited due to sparks from a welding machine during construction work at the memorial of Ağadere Ağır Mecruhin Hospital in Çanakkale's Eceabat district.

Ruins of a church dating back 800 years have been unearthed at the ancient city of Adramytteion in the northwestern Turkish province of Balıkesir's Burhaniye district.

The find comes just two weeks before the end of this year's seasonal works.