Antalya

The Antalya Chief Prosecutor's Office has started an investigation on a former Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy over charges of "praising the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization [FETÖ]/Parallel State Structure [PDY]."

The former CHPAntalya Deputy Gürkut Acar allegedly praised FETÖ/PDY in columns he wrote for a local newspaper.

Restoration and conversation is set to start again at the Monumental Fountain (Nymphaeum) in the ancient city of Side in the southern province of Antalya's Manavgat district. 

The Monumental Fountain dates back to the 2nd century A.D. and has undergone a series of restorations since 2004.

The Roman sarcophagus of Hercules, which was smuggled abroad some 50 years ago, has finally been returned to Turkey from Switzerland. 

The sarcophagus, which was found during illegal excavations in the ancient city of Perge in the southern province of Antalya, was delivered to Culture and Tourism Ministry officials in Geneva on Sept. 13. 

Conservation, restoration and integration works have been initiated for the Hellenistic towers in the ancient city of Perge in the southern province of Antalya. The work has been carried out by the Antalya Directorate of Surveying and Monuments. 

A 2,500-year-old mausoleum in the southern province of Antalya has become the victim of vandalism.

Some 7.5 million tourists visited the Mediterranean resort of Antalya in the first eight months of the year despite a steady decrease in arrivals from 10 key European markets, data showed on Sept. 6. 

Just 6.4 million tourists visited Antalya over the whole of 2016, which was a tough year for the resort's tourism amid a diplomatic crisis with Russia. 

Turkey's two world famous tourism spots, the southern province of Antalya and the western province of Muğla, are like haven for holiday goers with their beaches and coves. 

A Russian tourist drowned in the sea off the Kemer district of the Mediterranean resort of Antalya on Sept. 3.

The 63-year-old tourist, identified as Olga Salomakhina, reportedly went swimming at a beach of a hotel on the coast of the Tekirova neighborhood in the evening hours after having dinner, but locals observed her standing still in the sea a while later.

Two hectares of forest land were reduced to ashes in the Mediterranean province of Antalya's touristic Kemer district on Aug. 27 while another four hectares of land burned down on the same day in the Aegean province of Muğla's Yatağan district.

A Russian tourist drowned in the sea off the Alanya district of the Mediterranean resort of Antalya on Aug. 27, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The 68-year-old tourist, identified as Nikolay Kudinov, reportedly went swimming off the coast in the Kızlarpınar neighborhood in the early hours of the morning but after swimming for a while locals observed him struggling in the sea.