Provinces of Turkey

Following the Feb. 6 earthquakes that caused massive destruction in the country's south, the first Sunday mass has taken place in front of the ruins of collapsed Antakya Protestant Church in the southern province of Hatay.

Hatay, one of the most ancient and attractive cities of the region severely hit by the devastating earthquakes, will never be left alone, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, repeating that the city, with all its districts, will be revived in one year.

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.

Not only residential buildings but also historical places have been damaged in Adıyaman that suffered great destruction in the Kahramanmaraş Pazarcık-centered earthquake and resulted in the highest number of human losses in proportion to the population.

The Rabbit Island, off the Türkbükü and Gündoğan regions of the Aegean province of Muğla's Bodrum district, has been put up for sale online for 220.2 million Turkish Liras ($11.8 million).

The sale advertisement of the island located 16 miles away from Bodrum was published on an online real estate platform with the title "Island for sale in the magnificent bay of Gündoğan."

Three more suspects have been detained in the investigation launched into the assassination of the former head of the ultra-nationalist group, Grey Wolves, bringing the total number to 18.

Nearly 4,000 suspects have been caught in the operations carried out in 11 districts of Istanbul since the new year against suspects found to be involved in the drug trade.

The countdown has begun for the first phase of the Ephesus Ancient Canal Project, which is set to make the ancient city reunite with the sea again after 2,500 years in İzmir's Selçuk district.

The ancient canal project, carried out in the ancient city of Ephesus, is expected to make a great contribution to the country's tourism.

Total passenger traffic at Türkiye's airports increased by 42 percent last year from 2021 to 182 million, data from the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMİ).

Within the scope of a social responsibility project for animals living in shelters in the country's eastern provinces where the temperature has dropped below zero, volunteers have delivered 40.6 tons of food to animal shelters in Kars, Ardahan, Erzurum and Ağrı.