Mediterranean Region, Turkey

Turkey's Western Mediterranean Development Agency (BAKA) and Turkish Airlines have initiated a project to enable the Turkish province of Antalya to take a bigger share in the world golf market by inviting representatives from France's golf travel agencies to visit the resort town of Belek's golf courses. 

Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z has said it is ?too early? to say the cause of the huge electricity blackout that left almost the whole of Turkey in darkness on March 31 was a cyber-attack, underlining that efforts are still ongoing to find its exact cause two days on.

Increasing pollution in the Manavgat River in Turkey?s southern touristic hub of Antalya has drawn reaction from tourism professionals working in the region, including the head of the city?s tourism group, who called it a ?dump river.? 

A journalist in southern Turkey has been sentenced to a five-month suspended prison sentence, while the houses of two more journalists from the same city have been raided by police, all for ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on their social media accounts.

The houses of two journalists in southern Turkey have been raided by police for ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Twitter, while another journalist has testified in Istanbul for committing the same alleged crime in his book.

Two women have been shot dead on a highway in the southern province of Adana, as Turkey continues to debate the apparently increasing number of brutal murders committed by men.

A truck driver noticed the bodies of the two women in a ditch on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep highway on March 16, Do?an News Agency reported.

Hatay?s famous Harbiye waterfalls, mentioned in classical mythology, are in a sorry state after recent heavy rains and a terrible landslide in the area The Harbiye waterfalls in the southern Turkish province of Hatay have been badly damaged by a landslide that followed recent heavy rains in the area.

The number of Russian tourists visiting Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya decreased by 41 percent in the first two months of the year, much higher than the overall decrease in visitors to the province of 2.9 percent, according to data from the Association of Mediterranean Tourism and Hoteliers of Turkey (AKTOB).

With Turkey still in shock after the brutal killing of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan, news reports of violence against unfortunately continue without stopping.

Around 15,000 people marched in the southern province of Mersin on Feb. 18 to protest the brutal murder of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan.