İzmir

At least 23 people were killed and 28 others injured in two separate accidents on Aug. 8 in western Turkey involving
passenger buses, officials said.

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Eight people died and 11 others were injured in Izmir province when a passenger bus veered off an embankment and plunged to the ground in Kemalpaşa district, Izmir Governor Yavuz Selim Köşger said on Twitter.

A total of six suspects have been arrested on allegations they started fires in two districts of the southwestern province of Muğla.

A 16-year-old earthquake victim, who was saved from the rubble 17 hours after the 6.9-magnitute earthquake on Oct. 30, 2020 in the western province of İzmir, is now walking, running and doing daily activities without help after a nine-month rehabilitation process.

Those looking for an alternative spot to visit and spend the Eid Al-Adha holiday have flocked to the ancient city Ephesus and the Şirince neighborhood in the Selçuk district of the western province of İzmir on the Aegean coast.

Like many other resort towns on Turkey's coastal provinces, Bodrum has become overcrowded with holidaymakers during the Eid al-Adha holiday this year.

The population of the town, which is around 400,000 during off season, in the province of Muğla on the Aegean coast has soared to 1 million.

Over the past week, more than 140,000 vehicles entered the resort town.

Security and customs authorities in the western province of Izmir seized over 26 tons of raw material used in drug production, said Turkish sources on July 17. 

With Turkey lifting nationwide curfews and lockdowns as of July 1, local tourists have been flocking to some of the well-known tourism hubs in the Aegean region, giving a sigh of relief to the badly hit tourism industry that closed down for one and a half years during the pandemic.

On its 31st year, excavations in the western province of İzmir's ancient city of Metropolis, supported by the Sabancı Foundation, will continue to illuminate the secrets of history.

A total of 30 mountaineers climbed up the Cilo and Sat Mountains in the southeastern province of Hakkari to witness the natural beauty of glaciers that are as old as 20,000 years but are unfortunately melting because of the effect of global warming.

There is an urgent need for skilled workers to meet the needs of Turkey's expanding wind energy sector, Nordex Turkey's General Director Habib Babacan told Anadolu Agency on June 23. 

The current labor force is not on track to meet the growing needs of the sector that has the potential to double the current workforce to 30,000 over the next 15 years, Babacan said.