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A drone photo shows Turkey's Bolu province during the winter season. (AA Photo)

Stargazers were able to catch a glimpse of one of the biggest and best celestial light shows of the year as the Perseid meteor shower peaked over Turkey on Aug. 12.

Hundreds of shooting stars rained over the sky during one of the brightest astronomical displays.

Nearly 700 Turkish nationals were repatriated on May 16 from the United States and Kyrgyzstan as part of an initiative by Ankara over the coronavirus pandemic.

An exclusive Turkish Airlines flight with 354 Turks from the U.S. landed in the Black Sea province of Ordu. Separately, 330 Turks were evacuated from Kyrgyzstan and landed in metropolis Istanbul.

Another 571 Turkish citizens were placed under a 14-day quarantine on March 26 after being brought back from abroad amid the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A ro-ro ship carried 25 truck drivers from Ukraine to Karasu Port in Sakarya province. They were transferred to an evacuated dormitory in the province after their first health check.

Turkey seized over 10.15 kilograms (about 22 pounds) of heroin in the northwestern province of Bolu, a police source said on Jan. 21.

Anti-narcotics police, assisted by a sniffer dog, searched a suspicious car on a motorway in Bolu, recovering heroin from the trunk of the vehicle, said the source who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

The Yedigöller National Park, located in the northwestern province of Bolu, has breathtaking sights that are worth seeing.

Bungalows built in the Gölcük National Park as part of a planned development, which was later annulled by a court order, will soon be sold and relocated to other areas, the mayor of the northwestern province of Bolu has said.

A Turkish court has halted a planned construction in Gölcük National Park in the northwestern province of Bolu, forestalling the establishment of 25 bungalows and a 19-room mountain mansion.

A lawsuit has been filed against the developers of the Burj Al Babas housing project on grounds that the company destroyed trees and dumped excavated soil on forestland in the district of Mudanya in the northwestern province of Bolu.

The municipality of the northwestern province of Bolu has begun the construction of bungalows in the Gölcük National Park, one of the symbols of the province, which has drawn criticism from environmentalists.