Ağrı

Türkiye's Supreme Election Council (YSK) has announced that it has rejected an application logged by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to annul the mayoral election in the southern city of Hatay.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged ongoing support for local governments while leveling accusations of "dirty dealings" against the opposition during a rally in eastern Türkiye on March 14.

Ukrainian climber Danil Odynets, who lost his balance and fell on the rocks while climbing the 5,137-meter-high Mount Ağrı, has been rescued.

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.

A report presented to the Turkish parliament subcommission on migration has shown that Turkey has so far constructed a 1,079-kilometer-long wall along its borders with Iran to prevent the illegal entry of migrants and that the entire construction is almost complete.

Mostly Afghans and Pakistanis travel on foot along the borders with Iran and enter Turkey.

A man has spent millions of liras to make his childhood dreams come true: Creating a forest in his village in the eastern province of Ağrı.

Businessman Kadir Ardin, 53, moved to the Örtülü village, which is located on the foothills of the mighty Mount Ağrı (Ararat), after retirement in 2015.

A women's football team established in the eastern province of Ağrı by the provincial directorate of family and social policies to promote sports among girls and prevent early marriages has become a regional giant with four wins in five matches this season.

The countdown has begun for a snow-themed festival to be held for the second time this year in Turkey's eastern province of Ağrı.

Local officials and ice sculptors stepped up their efforts for the long-awaited event, which will be launched on Feb. 25 in the city center.

Two nurses from the southern province of Antalya have reached the climax of Mount Ağrı, Turkey's highest mountain with an elevation of 5,137 meters, following a week-long climb under freezing temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius.

"A Turkish woman can succeed everything she aims for," Ayşe Kalkan, 50 and who planned the event, told Demirören News Agency.

History Channel, a world-famous television network of the United States, is shooting a documentary about the area believed to be home to the remains of Noah's Ark in Doğubayazıt district of the eastern province of Ağrı.