Geography of Turkey

In the past, for instance, if it had happened seven years ago, with the mindset, the prejudices and the superstitions of the time, we had an easy job. We would say ?It is the work of the deep state,? and move on?

Many untouched forests and wild animals have been negatively affected by wildfires across the country, while experts warned against new forest fires in Turkey's southern and Aegean provinces. 

Fires in the Lice and Kulp districts of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r burned forests on July 19 and 20, though officials said they were under control on July 20 morning.  

The women of Turkey's Black Sea region, who are known for their courage and hard work in a tough environment, have become a symbol of the protection of nature during the latest protest against the Green Road project targeting the region.

The four-day-long Eid al-Fitr holiday cheered the tourism sector in Turkey, after a tough year when the industry was hit by a severe blow due to crisis in Russia.

Chairman of the Professional Hotel Managers Association (POYD) Ali K?z?lda? quoted an occupancy rate of 100 percent at hotels and attributed this recovery to the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

At least one person has been killed and another wounded in a blast at a nitrogen factory near the western Turkish province of Bursa, according to rescue officials.

The explosion occurred in a factory in the town of Gemlik early July 19. The reason of the explosion remains unknown.

Tunceli Emek, a daily in the southeast province of Tunceli, has a feature that no other newspaper in Turkey has: All of its employees, from its owner to its reporters and from its editors to its page designers, are women.

The construction of Istanbul's huge new airport started as of May 1 this year, two years after the tender, under the shadow of challenges at the construction site and questions over the potential environmental effects of the project The construction of Istanbul's new airport officially started on May 1, 2015, after the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHM?) officially han

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (?BB) has approved new plans for the access roads to Istanbul's third bridge after an Istanbul court had revoked an amendment for the construction plans on June 11.

The Republican People's Party (CHP) Antalya Deputy Mustafa Akayd?n has been fined 10 million Turkish Liras by the Turkish Court of Accounts for allegedly causing a shortage in the public budget through construction work and introduction of an automated bus payment system in the Mediterranean province of Antalya when he served as Antalya's mayor.

The Kültepe-Kani?-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women?s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement.