Akdeniz

A Turkish man has succumbed to his wounds after setting himself on fire in the southern province of Antalya on Feb. 8 in protest at his unemployment. 

There is a Turkish saying that goes "There is no religious holiday or any similar occasion; why did my brother-in-law kiss me?"

Turks use it when faced with an unexpected positive gesture that they have difficulty understanding the purpose of. 

The Antalya Women's Museum is set to become Turkey's third women's museum following ones in Istanbul and ?zmir, having already launched a virtual museum online.

Artists have been continuing to work on their sculptures for the Manavgat International Stone-Sculpture Symposium, which is being organized in the southern province of Antalya's Manavgat district with the theme of "water and stone." The symposium, which started on Sept. 29, will be closed on Oct. 16 with the opening of the sculptors' exhibition. 

This year's excavation work at the ancient site of Patara, located in the southern province of Antalya, has recently concluded.

Patara, known as the capital of ancient Lycian Union, has been undergoing excavations for 27 years.

A 29-year-old Russian woman has died and her husband has been injured after they plunged into the sea with a parasailing parachute off the Mediterranean province of Antalya.

A Chinese woman has died after being hit by a bus in the Mediterranean province of Antalya.

Jring Wang, a Chinese tourist in Antalya, died after she was hit by a public bus around 1:00 p.m. on July 12 while crossing a street called Akdeniz Avenue.  

A street cleaning vehicle has swept up and killed a 6-year-old boy in southern Turkey, Do?an News Agency reported on July 10.

The boy, identified as ?sa Ça?l?, grabbed the back of the cleaning vehicle operated by the Akdeniz Municipality when it entered a street in the Akdeniz neighborhood of Mersin province on July 9.

A 19-year-old woman in Turkey's southern province of Antalya fell from the balcony of her seventh floor apartment but managed to cling to life by grabbing the sixth floor balcony parapets and leaping to the terrace below. 

On June 23, Aybüke Y?lmaz went out on her apartment's balcony in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya where she lives with her parents. 

Erasmus+ exchange program coordinators from universities across Turkey gathered for a meeting in the southern province of Antalya to enhance their knowledge about the details of the program.