Manisa

A registrar in the Turgutlu district of the Aegean province of Manisa refused to conduct a wedding when the bride made a joke during the service.

A prosecutor demanded the arrest of Soma Holding's chairman Alp Gürkan on March 26 over the 2014 disaster that claimed the lives of 301 miners in the Soma district of the Aegean province of Manisa. 

Two runaways who had escaped from a prison in the western Turkish province of Manisa have been found by the local gendarmerie units sleeping near a road, Doğan News Agency reported on Feb. 28. 

Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on Feb. 8 inaugurated a new room air-conditioner production facility in Turkey’s western province of Manisa, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

A huge rock mass in the ancient city of Aigai, located in the western Turkish province of Manisa, has been broken by treasure hunters.

A retired Turkish and literature teacher, who is living in the western province of Manisa’s Salihli district, paints fruit and human figures on the walls of houses and gardens in the Çökelek neighborhood.

A 20-year-old basic private was arrested in the Aegean province of Manisa on Sept. 6 after making a hoax call to the 112 medical emergency number and telling them to "send many ambulances to the [provincial] security directorate" or otherwise, what is thought to be a bomb would "explode." 

A road dating back to 2,000 years ago has been unearthed during the excavations in the ancient city of Aigai in the western province of Manisa.

A proposal to allow "muftis," religious civil servants within the body of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), to register and conduct marriages has stirred controversy in Turkey, with many rights organizations as well as the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) criticizing the issue. 

Many granaries from 3,500 years ago have been unearthed in the western province of Manisa. The granaries were found in the eight-hectare Gölmarmara Kaymakçı settlement dating back to the early Bronze Age.

Excavations have been continuing in Gölmarmara Kaymakçı, which is the largest early Bronze Age settlement in the Gediz Delta, since 2014.