Paragliding

Orkut Baysal, one of the athletes of the National Paragliding Team, lost his life as two parachutes collided and fell during the landing in southwestern province of Muğla's Fethiye district.

On April 29, 30-year-old professional paraglider Orkut Baysal jumped from the 1,700-meter runway of Babadağ in Ölüdeniz neighborhood with Andaç Ünsal, whom he was currently training.

A paraglider flies over Lake Van in Turkey's eastern Van province. (AA Photo)

A professional tandem paraglider recently flew over the white thermal pools of the southwestern Pamukkale region with a motorcycle he tied to his parachute.

Hasan Kaval, who took off by riding the motorcycle attached to the parachute, recorded his flight with an action camera over the travertines for 20 minutes and landed in the Kocaçukur region.

Located 8.5 kilometers south of the resort town of Fethiye, Ölüdeniz is a well-known site for paragliding activities performed from Mt. Babadağ, which is a steep peak rising right next to the blue Mediterranean Sea. (AA Photo)

A woman has marked her divorce by paragliding to a party in the Bursa province where her friends met her to celebrate the end of her marriage.

Seven Turkish female pilots of one of the world's best-known centers for paragliding offer tourists the opportunity to fly high above the Mediterranean landscape of southwestern Turkey.

Mountain Rescue Service teams have helped two injured paragliders, the Mountain Rescue Service told Focus News Agency. The two men were injured in paragliding accidents near Dupnitsa. The rescuers have conducted two operations. One of the men is a Japanese. Both were taken to hospital in good condition.

A video circulating on the internet shows the last moments of a Turkish paragliding pilot and a Pakistani paraglider as they plunged to their deaths in a tandem paraglide accident on April 15.

1000 meters is the length of the route that participants can measure their strengths. In order to complete successfully, competitors will have to rely not only on training but also on a perfect judgment.

The weather will be mostly sunny today, sometimes with increased cloudiness mainly in the northern and western regions. This is the forecast of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH), quoted by FOCUS News Agency.