Geography of Turkey

The historic graves in the ancient city of Phocaea located in ?zmir's Eski Foça face damage due to an ?zmir Metropolitan Municipality sewage construction project.

Phocaea, an ancient Ionian Greek city located in Eski Foça, has been damaged due to a public water and sewage project done by the ?zmir Directorate General of the Water and Sewage Systems (?ZSU). 

Daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the paper's Ankara representative, Erdem Gül, have been arrested because of stories they wrote. 

Here is a chronology to better understand the issue in our country where everything is extremely confusing: 

Six migrant children have died after two separate mishaps involving Greece-bound inflatable boats off Turkey's Aegean coast, amid migrants' ongoing attempts to cross to Greece's islands by sea.

Photos display the destruction in the southeastern province of Mardin’s Nusaybin district after a 13-day curfew was lifted on Nov. 26

The dead body of another young girl has been found washed ashore in the western Turkish province of Ayd?n, amid continued attempts by migrants to cross into European countries from Turkey by sea.

The girl, so far unidentified, was found dead on Nov. 25 after reportedly washing up on the coast of a national park in Ku?adas?, a popular resort district in Ayd?n.

A curfew declared in the Nusaybin district of southeastern Mardin province was lifted on Nov. 26, 13 days after it was instituted, the district's governor's office has announced.

The curfew, which was declared on Nov. 13 at 9 p.m., was lifted on Nov. 26 starting from 8 a.m., the statement said.

The 21st Festival on Wheels starts its journey on Nov. 26 in the Turkish capital Ankara. The event will also visit Bursa between Dec 4 and 7 and and Kastamonu on Dec 9 and 10 with the theme 'Precarious Lives'The Festival on Wheels is preparing to hit the road for the 21st time on Nov. 26 in Ankara before setting forth to the west and north.

Sixteen people out of 22 detained over the smuggling of migrants into Europe from Turkey were arrested on Nov. 25 by an Istanbul court.

Police squads raided a number of different locations in the Zeytinburnu district, on the European side of the city, as part of a series of operations targeting smugglers between Nov. 15 and 19, police sources said.

The southeastern town of Cizre has become a ghost town following clashes during a 12-hour curfew imposed for military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, which left one police officer killed. 

Another curfew has been declared in two neighborhoods of the restive Cizre district of the southeastern province of ??rnak, starting from 4 p.m. on Nov. 24, the local governor's office announced.