Geography of Turkey

Nejla Işık, the local head of a village in the southwestern province of Muğla and an environmental activist, has secured a spot on BBC's prestigious annual list of the world's 100 most influential women.

In the first 11 months of 2024, foreign tourist arrivals in the Mediterranean province of Antalya hit 16.6 million, which marked an all-time high figure for the popular holiday destination.

Security forces have taken the uncle of an 8-year-old missing girl into custody in the country's southeast following the brief detention and subsequent release of her elder brother.

The incident unfolded on the afternoon of Aug. 21 when Narin Güran did not return home after leaving a course in Diyarbakır province, prompting her family to initiate their own search efforts.

Over 2,800 swimmers from more than 78 countries competed in a remarkable race across the Bosphorus Strait on Aug. 25, traversing the historic divide between Istanbul's two continents.

A total of 2,836 participants, including 1,967 men and 869 women, commenced this year's 36th edition of the race at 10 a.m. from the shores of Kanlıca on the Anatolian side.

The Greek philosopher allegedly spent his last night listening to music played by a slave girl from Thrace and commenting on her... lack of rhythm

The population of a protected species called noble pen shell, or Pinna nobilis, has increased significantly in the Marmara Sea, contributing as a solution to the mucilage problem and its own existence.

The mucilage problem experienced in the Marmara Sea in 2021 threatened the existence of many organisms in the marine ecosystem, particularly the pen shell.

With a whopping 585 thousand reservations made and a predicted holiday activity of 2 million people expected, the southern province of Antalya expects a historic spike in tourism during the nine-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

Istanbul's museum of modern art, Istanbul Modern, moved on May 4 into a new building overlooking the Bosphorus Strait, designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian-born architect of London's Shard skyscraper and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Established in 2004, the Istanbul Modern in 2018 moved out of a rustic building that once served as a customs warehouse.

Around 4,392 hectares of forest cover that was reduced to ashes following massive wildfires in the southwestern province of Muğla's Marmaris district last year is now turning green again with the help of an experimental method in which burned trees were not cut down but left to the natural cycle of the ecosystem.

A 46-year-old American woman who moved to the northern province of Ordu following a trip to the Black Sea region nine years ago has expressed how she not only adapted to the Turkish culture but also realized her dream of learning the art of glass thanks to the municipality's vocational courses.