Aegean Region

The Istanbul Restoration and Conservation Center, affiliated with the Culture and Tourism Ministry, has started work cleaning 600-year-old cannons at the Bodrum Castle. 

The walls and Ottoman cannons of one of the world?s leading museums, the Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum in the Bodrum Castle, were found to have been painted June 2014. 

A French cyclist has been killed in an accident after being struck by a car in the southwestern province of Mu?la.

Christian Jean Auguste Niaffe, 59, was struck at around 5 p.m. on May 24 while en route to the resort town of Marmaris in the Aegean region.

Two members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) from Turkey's mining disaster-struck Aegean province of Manisa have told mine owners, who work with a royalty system, to bring miners to the AKP election rally in Manisa on May 24, according to a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy.

Members of the Advantage Travel Partnerships, the UK?s largest independent travel agency partnership, will hold their annual conference in the Aegean province of Bodrum through May 15-18. 

Historical artifacts have been damaged during illegal excavations in the ancient city of Kastabala, known as the Ephesus of the southern Çukurova region. 

In Kastabala Hierapolis, which is located 12 kilometers away from the Osmaniye city center, someone taking photographs in the area saw May 13 that many historical artifacts were damaged. 

A total of 126 migrants have been captured in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne, as they tried to illegally cross the border on May 14.

A total of 239 migrants were captured in Turkey's western provinces over the weekend, including a number of migrants rescued from sunken inflatable boats in the Aegean Sea. 

The Turkish Coast Guard rescued a total of 107 migrants trying to cross onto Greek islands on May 10 in three separate locations off Bodrum, a southwestern town in the province of Mu?la. 

22 beauty queens from seven continents set sail off the southwestern Turkish resort of Bodrum on May 11 ahead of the Miss 7 Continents contest. Here are the photos.

The families of the 301 workers killed in the mining disaster at the Soma coal mine in western Turkey have marched. Here are the photos

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Turkish ports operator Global Yat?r?m signed a deal on May 6 for the EBRD to buy a 20 percent stake from Global Port's planned initial public offering, worth around 700 million Turkish Liras ($259.34 million), the company said in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on May 7.