Tarsus

At least 159 historical artifacts were recovered and a suspected smuggler arrested in southern Turkey on Aug. 21. 

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The artifacts, believed to date back to the Roman era, were found in an operation in the Tarsus district of Mersin province, according to security officials.

A vehicle used by the suspect was also seized.

The Nusret Mine Ship, which changed the fate of the war with the mines laid in the strait during the Dardanelles Campaign, takes its visitors on a historical journey in the Tarsus district of the southern province of Mersin, where it has been exhibited since 2003 after its restoration.

The body of a man was found on Jan. 16 after two guards who sailed for fishing went missing in Mediterranean Turkey.

Search and rescue works for Oktay Avcı, 32, and Ömer Özer, 32, who went missing on Jan. 11, continued over the night in Tarsus district of southern Mersin province.

A Dutch national who was reported missing over a month ago was found dead on Aug. 14 in the Silifke district of the southern province of Mersin, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Joey Hoffman, 22, his Dutch friend Björn Breukers, and his wife Derya Ün Breukers, from Mersin's Tarsus district, came to the Narlıkuyu region in July to buy land and also to have a vacation.

Yüksel Ye?ilova, a Turkish football coach, has broken the Russian embargo on Turkey with special permission from the Kremlin for him to head Russian Premier League side Mordovia Saransk. 

Attempts to inter Ahmet Suphi Alt?ndöken, the convicted felon in the brutal rape and killing of 20-year-old-student Özgecan Aslan in February 2015, have precipitated a crisis after village residents locked the doors of their cemetery and refused to bury Alt?ndöken's body.