Ali Acar

Victims of bus accident in Turkish resort of Marmaris laid to rest on Mother's Day

Victims of a bus accident in the Turkish resort district of Marmaris in the Aegean province of Muğla were laid to rest on May 14 Mother's Day in the western province of İzmir. 

Some 24 people were killed and 11 others were injured when a tour bus carrying 34 passengers and heading to Marmaris from İzmir's Buca district for a one-day trip toppled in Sakar Geçidi on May 13.  

Turkish resort municipalities call for delay of school opening over bad tourism season

The mayors of three Aegean resort towns in Turkey have called on the Education Ministry and Culture Ministry to postpone the reopening of schools by two weeks, in order for the tourism sector to compensate for the losses it has suffered this summer.