Ayvacık

Five people were killed and dozens more required medical treatment after a fire that started with the burning of crop stubble spread through settlements in southeast Turkey overnight, officials said Friday.

Authorities in Turkey have stopped a truck carrying 82 migrants traveling to Europe, according to the Euronews.

Police have released a video showing people getting off the trailer near the town of Ayvacik. 
 
According to the IHA news agency, the detainees were Afghans trying to reach Europe, hoping to travel to Europe by sea.

A 4.3 magnitude earthquake was registered this morning in the Aegean near the Turkish Canakkale coast, Turkish private NTV reported.

According to data from the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), the quake occurred at 2.55 today near the resort town of Ayvacik.

The earthquake was at a depth of 28 km and a distance of about 25 km from Ayvacik.

At least ten migrants, including five children, were drown on Saturday when their boat sank sank off the coast of Ayvacik, Turkey, a town across from the Greek island of Lesvos.

The migrants had set off from the district of Ayvacik in Canakkale province trying to reach the Greek island of Lesvos.

The ancient Greek city of Paleo Gargara near the northern Aegean coast will be crossed with a tunnel after a highway project was stalled by a first-degree archaeological site, where no construction is permitted by law, in its path.