Sakarya

Five people were electrocuted on June 23 at a water park in the northwestern province of Sakarya, including two teenagers and a 12-year-old child.

The governors of 41 provinces of Turkey were changed with a new decree law issued early on June 21. 

According to the decree published in the Official Gazette, 20 governors were relocated to the central office as part of decisions taken in a cabinet meeting and approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

Tensions between a Syrian worker and factory department head on the morning of June 15 in the Hendek district of the Marmara province of Sakarya escalated to involve hundreds of locals, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

A key Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant was arrested in the northwestern province of Sakarya on June 7. 

"Abu Hanzala," code-named Halis Bayancuk, was arrested over "attempting to remove the constitutional order" and "being a member of the ISIL armed terrorist group." 

Police have detained a key Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant in Istanbul for the fourth time as part of an ongoing operation in the northwestern province of Sakarya. 

Turkey's Health Ministry has sent a letter to the Social Security Institution (SGK), the government's health insurance scheme, to cover all medical expenses for 114 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients in the country, after an 8-month-old baby died due to a lack of financial means, according to daily Habertürk.

An 8-month-old baby with a fatal disease died in the Marmara province of Sakarya on May 22 after a campaign to raise money for the infant's treatment failed to raise enough funds, Doğan News Agency has reported.
  
The boy, Eymen Çapkın, was born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.

An unidentified person who poured gasoline on a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, and later hit it with an axe, survived a lynch attempt by locals who witnessed the incident, Doğan News Agency reported on May 22. 

An ammunition box, believed to have come from a previously sunken Russian intelligence boat, was found washed ashore on May 7 on a beach in Karasu, a town in the northwestern Turkish province of Sakarya on the Black Sea coast. 

The discovery was reportedly made by a local fisherman, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  

Almost two-fifths of Turks who died in 2016 perished due to diseases of the circulatory system, according to a study by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK).

Some 39.8 percent of the 408,782 deaths in 2016 occurred due to circulatory diseases, followed by cancer at 19.7 percent and respiratory diseases at 11.9 percent.