Mehmet Kocadon

The International Bodrum Jazz festival will be held between Sept. 1 and 9 with the support of the Jazz Association and Muğla Metropolitan Municipality.

September was chosen for the event because July and August were already high season in the Aegean province of Muğla's Bodrum district and organizers wanted to bring an activity at the end of the tourist season.

The century-old lily-white houses of Bodrum, a popular resort town in the western province of Muğla, are known for their wooden doors, blue windows and bougainvilleas.

It is popularly believed that the white paint of the houses, which give Bodrum such a distinctive look, keeps away insects while the blue windows combat the "evil eye."

The mayor of the Aegean resort district of Bodrum, which was hit by a massive earthquake recently, has urged holidaymakers to continue their holidays, assuring them "all precautions are taken." 

The Rainbow Warrior, the legendary boat of the international environmentalist group Greenpeace, arrived in Turkey this week on a three-stop tour for its campaign "Sail to the Sun," which aims to increase the use of solar energy in Turkey.

The Rainbow Warrior, the legendary boat of the international environmentalist group Greenpeace, arrived in Turkey this week on a three-stop tour for its campaign "Sail to the Sun," which aims to increase the use of solar energy in Turkey.

A nun mosaic in a 1600-year-old historic church at a popular bay area of the Turkish resort town of Bodrum has been looted, sparking angry reaction from environmental advocacy groups amid rumors about tourism investment plans in the bay area.

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.

The European Union (EU) has pulled its grant, worth 30 million Euros, for a solid waste disposal plant project, which was to be constructed in Turkey?s Aegean resort town of Bodrum, due to complications about on land allocation. 

Syrian refugees who have been living outdoors in the southern resort town of Bodrum in Mu?la were taken to a local schoolyard on June 22 by police and municipal police following complaints.

Tombs from the Hellenistic period unearthed in Bodrum five years ago have returned underground. The Bodrum Municipality has criticized the decision, slamming what it called an ?ISIL mentality in Bodrum?