Mediterranean Region, Turkey

Legal services continue in containers in Hatay Courthouse garden

After the 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Feb. 20 heavily damaged Hatay Courthouse and rendered it inoperational, legal services continue in containers installed in the courthouse garden.

Surviving the Feb. 6 quakes that devastated the country's south with slight damages, the courthouse became completely unusable after a major tremor in the southern province of Hatay's Defne district.

Quake survivor children painting at seaside

In Mersin's Erdemli district, a painting activity was organized in order to reduce the traumatizing effect of the earthquakes on quake survivor children.

Following the earthquakes which left Türkiye in mourning, Mersin is one of the cities that received the highest number of migrants with tens of thousands of quake survivors coming to Erdemli, a tourism district.

Türkiye has the most effective intervention system in disasters: Erdoğan

Just like the services we offer in a wide range of areas extending from education to healthcare and transportation to energy, we also have the fastest and most effective system of intervention in disasters in the world, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said no Jan. 7 at the opening ceremony of multiple facilities in Antalya.

Wall paintings in St. Nicholas Museum being touched up

Within the scope of a restoration and landscaping project implemented by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, the wall paintings that were previously unearthed in the St. Nicholas Museum in the southern province of Antalya's Demre district are getting a retouch.

New murals from the 11th century were also unearthed during the work at the museum.

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