Antalya

The organizers of the annual Antalya Film Festival, which will be carried out from October 21-27 this year, have decided to merge the national and international contest categories.

Hollywood actress Liv Tyler visited the ancient city of Ephesus in the Aegean province of İzmir with her family on July 15.

Tyler, best-known for her performance in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, departed from the Mediterranean province of Antalya by helicopter and arrived in İzmir's Selçuk district.   

More than 750,000 Ukrainian tourists are expected to travel to the Mediterranean resort province of Antalya this year as the number of visitors from the country continued to soar in the first half of the year, the province's local governor has stated.

A large number of locals and tourists slept by the coast due to sweltering temperatures and humidity in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on July 11.

Meteorologists measured the temperature at 39 degrees and the humidity rate at 50 percent in Antalya, prompting locals and tourists to flock to the province's famous Konyaaltı Beach to spend the night.

Three Russian tourists were caught after pretending to be guests at a four-star hotel in the southern Turkish resort province of Antalya on July 5.

Two 2,000-year-old granite columns dating back to the Roman era, which previously made headlines after a local used them as an apartment building decoration, were taken on July 3 to a museum in the southern province of Antalya.

The Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, which will be held between July 6 and 9 in Kaleiçi, the historic city center of Antalya, will feature installations by seven artists in seven different locations. 

The number of Russian tourists visiting the Mediterranean resort of Antalya rose to 1.1 million in the first six months of the year, up from only 25,000 in the same period of 2016, data from Antalya Airport has showed. 

The Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry has released millions of bugs into forests in a bid to prevent other harmful insects from damaging trees. 

Different species of bugs were developed in a total of 51 laboratories formed by the ministry, before around 13 million "terminator bugs" were released into nature, daily Habertürk reported on June 30.

Controversy has been stirred in the southern province of Antalya after a local man put two 2,000-year-old granite columns dating back to the Roman era in front of his apartment building.