Muğla

Turkish jazz musician, pianist and singer Bozkurt İlham Gencer has passed away at the age of 101 in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district. His son, singer Bora Gencer, announced the news of his father's death on his social media account.

With cold weather spell continuing to grip the western parts of Türkiye, the Turkish State Meteorological Service has issued a "yellow alert" for 12 provinces that are likely to witness storms and thundershowers.

With excitement and anticipation seen on people's faces, Türkiye headed to the most critical elections in its 100-year history, as millions of Turks flocked to the polling stations across the country on May 14 to elect their new president and members of the 600-seat parliament.

Excavations have been conducted for the first time in the ancient city of Mobolla, one of the most important settlements of antiquity. Located in the Menteşe district of the western province of Muğla, from the fifth century, the ancient city bears the traces of the traditional Anatolian settlement model from 4,500 years ago.

Orkut Baysal, one of the athletes of the National Paragliding Team, lost his life as two parachutes collided and fell during the landing in southwestern province of Muğla's Fethiye district.

On April 29, 30-year-old professional paraglider Orkut Baysal jumped from the 1,700-meter runway of Babadağ in Ölüdeniz neighborhood with Andaç Ünsal, whom he was currently training.

As Russian oligarchs never took their boats from the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district this year, tourism sector representatives predict that the country will have a successful tourism season this summer.

With the urge to spend holidays in the lap of mother nature, over 1.3 million people have visited the areas protected by the Nature Conservation and National Parks (DKMP) during the three-day-long Eid holiday.

A dolphin show center operating in the southwestern province of Muğla's Marmaris district, where five dolphins died within one-and-a-half years, has been finally closed for good.

An anesthetic technician living in the southern quake-hit province of Hatay faces trouble after he was wrongly registered "dead" in the government records on the day of the deadly earthquakes that hit last month.

Living in the Samandağ district of Hatay, Yusuf Ökten and his family survived the devastating Feb. 6 earthquakes with their house intact.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Turkish coast in the Aegean on Jan. 25, there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The quake was felt in the provinces of Muğla, İzmir and Antalya, with Turkey's AFAD emergency management agency saying it had a preliminary magnitude of 5.4.