Kırklareli

Volunteers from the Pavli Workshop continue to work for the construction of scarecrows, field exploration, and concept planning, as part of preparations for the "Sunflower and Scarecrow" Festival in Kırklareli province. (AA Photo)

It is difficult to maintain the decline in COVID-19 in Turkish provinces where the vaccinations against the virus remain below the country average, the country's health minister has warned.

A village in the Marmara region, some 195 kilometers away from Istanbul, has been enthralling visitors with its natural beauties, offering people an alternative holiday destination.

"Kıyıköy is beautiful in every season," said Veli Şen, the provincial cultural and tourism director of the northwestern province of Kırklareli.

Poppy flowers that blossomed on the outskirts of the Yıldız Mountains, in Kırklareli province, astonish onlookers and visitors. (AA Photo)

Turkey is set to extract petroleum from three newly discovered reserves in the country's southeast and northwest, the energy and natural sources minister said on May 27.

"Following the discovery of 405 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Black Sea, we have also found oil in three new onshore wells," Fatih Dönmez tweeted.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is producing projects and realizing them through municipalities it runs despite claims made by the government that it isn't, the party's leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has said.

Greece is pushing migrants back to their deaths, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on March 18, adding that irregular migrants attacked by Greek coast guards or left at sea are being rescued by Turkish authorities.

Niyazi Savcı, a 93-year-old man in the northwestern province of Kırklareli, has been continuing his life-long taxidermy art for 61 years.

Known as "uncle birdman" in the province, Savcı has applied taxidermy to nearly a 1,000 dead birds and wild animals by stuffing them with a special process in order to keep them intact.

Prosecutors in the Central Anatolian province of Konya are seeking two to 15 years in jail for two dairy workers after they bathed in milk.

"One suspect put hot water and milk into a tank, got inside and took a bath. The other suspect filmed him," the indictment said.

After bathing in milk, the suspects pour milk to the floor of the dairy plant, according to the indictment.

Filiation teams at the forefront of the fight against the novel coronavirus in Turkey were on duty as they greeted the new year.

Filiation staff in the northwestern Kırklareli province were among them, tracking the virus' spread and conducting PCR tests while far from their families and loved ones on New Year's Eve.