Antalya

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.

The name of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival has been changed to the Antalya International Film Festival, according to a statement made by Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel. 

Stating that nearly 450 accredited film festivals were being organized in the world, Türel said only two of them had the same name as the festival award but they did not have and "international section." 

The 52nd International Antalya Film Festival has been postponed by a month to mid-November, the municipality of the southern province of Antalya announced Sept. 4.
      
The event was postponed to Nov. 29 - Dec. 6 due to the Nov. 1 general election, and the G20 summit scheduled for Nov. 15-16 in Antalya, the municipality said in the statement.
      

The southern Turkish province of Antalya's historic Aspendos Theater will host the 22nd International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival from Sept. 5-24. This year, Turkish officials' focus is on attracting local tourists to the festival, which has always been popular among foreign tourists.

A bull figure from the Bronze Age, which was purchased half a century ago, has been sent to the Antalya Museum from Vienna. 

Culture and Tourism Minister Ömer Çelik said a person named Manfred Weinwurm, who purchased the figure from Antalya, sent the historic artifact by cargo. 

A six-year-old Israeli boy has drowned in a hotel pool in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, the latest in a tragic series of drowning incidents in Turkey's southern touristic towns this summer. 

Actor Elijah Wood, best known for playing Frodo in the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" series, came to the southern Turkish province of Antalya for a DJ performance as part of the international EXPO 2016 events, planting the 15,000th sapling in the EXPO area.  

The 2nd International Alternative Tourism Arts and Culture Festival, Artoros, will host 162 artists from 22 different countries across the world including Italy, Macedonia, Japan, Poland and Kosovo on the high plain of the Taurus Mountains in the southern province of Antalya's ?bradi district. 

?I?ll tell you what we have: we have a hotel reservation, that?s for sure,? an Ankara based diplomat told me when I asked about his expectations for the upcoming G-20 summit.

His answer obviously reflected the uncertainty as to what kind of government would host the G-20 summit scheduled to take place in Antalya on Nov. 15-16.

More than 500,000 fewer Russians visited Turkey in the first seven months of 2015 in comparison to the same period the year previously, tourism representatives have said, noting the greatest drop-off was seen in the southern hotspot of Antalya.