Loggerhead sea turtle

While the demolition decision has not been implemented for 700 gazebos on the southern province of Antalya's Kumköy coast, previously declared a nesting area for endangered caretta carettas, new gazebos have also been started to be built.

A Caretta caretta that was struggling for life as it had ingested plastic debris, causing it gastrointestinal problems, has been released into the sea after getting treatment for one-and-a-half years and has traveled 600 kilometers (372 miles) since then.

The number of Caretta caretta nests in the southern province of Antalya's Belek district has decreased by 61 percent following the 1-degree Celsius drop in sea water temperature.

Following the nesting process of endangered Caretta caretta, which started at the end of May, the first baby Caretta has hatched from its egg in the southwestern province of Muğla's İztuzu beach on July 13.

Entering three famous beaches in the southern province of Antalya at night between 8 p.m. to sunrise has been banned with the start of the nesting season of the endangered Caretta caretta.

Those disobeying the rule on Çıralı, Olimpos and Patara beaches will be fined 109,785 Turkish Liras ($6,699).

British environmentalist June Haimoff, who was known as the "mother of Caretta caretta" for her massive efforts to protect the endangered species that lay eggs on the southwestern province of Muğla's İztuzu beach, has died at the age of 100 due to organ failure.

With loggerhead turtles being vulnerable to atmospheric and oceanographic shifts associated with climate change, they have been under the close watch of Turkish authorities as their seasonal marine habitat may shift in response to global warming.

Turkey has devised a new technique to protect its sea turtles by erecting wooden barriers on five beaches.

While riding their all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), two men have killed some 16 Caretta caretta hatchlings on a beach in the southern province of Antalya, through which the endangered baby sea creatures reach the Mediterranean Sea.

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The disturbing incident happened at the Mendirek beach in the Manavgat district's Sorgun neighborhood late on Sept. 1.

Turkish mariners serving at the mine hunter TCG Alanya ship, participating in a NATO military exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, paused a drill after noticing a Caretta Caretta in the fishlines.

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The soldiers in the Turkish mine hunter realized a Caretta Caretta floundering over the sea and saw that it could not move due to the fishlines that trapped it.