Bodrum

Bodrum Ballet Festival opens Aug 3

Jeff Bezos, the founder of online retailer giant Amazon and one of the world's richest people, is claimed to be exploring investment opportunities in the popular Turkish holiday resort town of Bodrum.

The 17th International Bodrum Ballet Festival will start on Aug. 3 at the Bodrum Castle.

Firefighters battled a fire that consumed scrubland near the popular southwestern resort town of Bodrum on July 16.

Turkish firefighters are battling a fire that has consumed a scrubland near the southwestern resort town of Bodrum on July 12.

German ship "Alan Kurdi" saved more than 40 migrants in the Mediterranean.

They were rescued from a wooden boat with the assistance of the Maltese authorities. The Maltese navy sent a ship to take the people of ''Alan Kurdi'' and transport them to the shore, "the organization said in Twitter, quoted by NOVA TV.

The Bodrum Music Festival will once again feature a slate of international musical celebrities during its 15th anniversary Aug. 22-25.

The municipality of the Bodrum district in the southwestern province of Muğla has temporarily banned the sale of mussels by street vendors.

In a bid to stop illegal construction works in Turkey's world-famous resort town of Bodrum, local municipality workers have demolished a deluxe building overlooking the Güvercinlik Bay.

When you leave behind the sparkling blue of Lake Bafa, stuck in Milas plain north of Bodrum, the pungent smell of the sunbaked earth will sting your nostrils. The asphalt road climbs continuously into the foothills of the Beşparmak Mountains, where the Çomakdağ villages nestle amidst endless groves of giant olive trees.