Provinces of Turkey

While criticizing the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an recently said: ?We did not nominate a fake mufti in Diyarbak?r or a gay candidate in Eski?ehir. We do not have such issues.? 

Up to now he has been criticizing the programs of the opposition parties. He was trying to reply to opposition leaders but doing so within an artificial ?impartiality show.? 

Turkish shipowners have taken over the reigns of transport to and from the Aegean islands. Greek shipowners from the islands of Chios, Mytilene, Kos and Rhodes have either withdrawn or have become agents for Turkish carriers so as to ensure their survival. A number of Turkish ferries have left their regular routes at the Bosphorus Strait for a bite of the East Aegean.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has continued his salvoes against the New York Times over the U.S. daily?s recent editorial criticizing him.

Europe's first airport on an artificial island opened on May 22, as a morning Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul carrying 136 passengers touched down on its runway, the first of its kind outside the Far East.

Two members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) from Turkey's mining disaster-struck Aegean province of Manisa have told mine owners, who work with a royalty system, to bring miners to the AKP election rally in Manisa on May 24, according to a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy.

The Turkish Cultural Foundation's Culinary Arts Center YESAM in Istanbul has organized a cultural journey to the heart of the rose.

After the remains of historic structures and human skeletons were found in the ancient city of Phaselis, located along the Mediterranean coast, the construction of a five-star hotel near the ancient city has been canceled by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs. 

Phaselis is also located within the Beyda?lar? Olympos National Park and aims to enter UNESCO's world heritage list.

Events are taking place throughout Greece on Tuesday to mark the Pontic Genocide of 1914-1923, when Ottoman and then nationalist Turkish forces slaughtered upwards of 368,000 Christian Pontians in what is modern-day Turkey’s northeast, particularly along the Black Sea coast.

The bombing of election offices of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) in the southern cities of Adana and Mersin on May 18 has added to already rising political tension ahead of Turkey?s June 7 general election.

A planned clean-up project for Ergene River would destroy natural life in the Marmara Sea, according a report released by several non-governmental organizations and environmental groups May 18.