Provinces of Turkey

Heraclia Latmos was one of the beautiful coastal cities of Karia, resting against the Latmos (Beşparmak) mountains and facing the Aegean. 

While the alluvial silt carried by the Greater Menderes River resulted in coastal towns like Miletus and Pyrenees being left 30 kilometers from the sea, they turned Latmos into a lake city called Bafa. (A) 

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A court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Feb. 17 issued an arrest warrant for Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy İdris Baluken following an appeal against his release in the case filed as part of a terror investigation, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The mayors of the Aegean province of Balıkesir and its district Ayvalık have joined forces to object to an urbanization project that is underway in 19 islands on the Aegean Sea, daily Hürriyet has reported.

Turkey continued its provocations towards Greece over the Aegean Sea, Wednesday with 7 airplanes violating Greek airspace a total of 25 times. Four armed F-16 fighter jets flew over the island of Farmakonisi off the west coast of Turkey, while they infringed the Athens FIR 7 times.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the arrested co-chair of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has requested his release from jail in a petition written to the Eighth Heavy Penal Court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

Hundreds of fingerprints have been found on documents seized from the Akıncı Air Base, which was used as a headquarters by the perpetrators of the July 2016 coup, according to Turkish authorities. 

Two Canadian Senators are campaigning for the recognition of the Pontian Greek Genocide in the Canadian Senate.

If anyone had any doubt about Turkey’s real intentions towards Greece, the statement made by Erdogan’s adviser, Burhan Kuzu comes to clarify things once and for all.
Here is what he said:

Following a two-week recess, Turkish lawmakers returned to their legislative duties on Feb.

Camel wrestling, a Yörük tradition, is organized in January and February every year in many Aegean provinces. Authorities permit the organizations of such events under the condition that they are organized with folkloric purposes and that the camels are not harmed.