Adana

A Turkish man has said he is selling some 400 Adana kebabs a day in his Miami restaurant, which has entered the Michelin Guide in its first year.

"Our restaurant, Doya, was opened a year ago, and we succeeded to enter the Michelin list with Turkish food," Erhan Köspeten said.

Famous Turkish actor Cüneyt Arkın has died at the age of 85 from a cardiac arrest on June 28.

After he fell ill last night, he was taken and treated at a private hospital in the Ulus neighborhood in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul.

His wife Betül Cüreklibatır and his family and friends visited him.

The seeds of grapes, lentils, broad beans, peas, wheat and barley have been found during archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Misis in the southern province of Adana's Yüreğir district.

Demand has been strong for the newly introduced revenue-indexed domestic bonds, Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati has said.

A kebab chef in the southern province of Adana has attempted to send a dish of "boru kebabı," roughly called "pipe kebab," into space with a weather balloon, which exploded in the stratosphere after a three-hour flight and fell into the Mediterranean Sea.

"I am a man who likes to make firsts," Yaşar Aydın told Demirören News Agency on April 12.

There are 1.2 million dogs and 4.1 million cats in Turkey, according to the data of the European Pet Food Industry Federation (FEDIAF), as the pandemic has caused a boom in the tendency to own pets among Turkish people.

Observing a similar rise, petlebi.com, an online portal that sells pet products, shared Turkey's 2021 pet trends based on sales statistics.

Nearly three dozen of people have been detained in operations launched in different cities over their suspected links to the terrorist organization PKK.

Security units launched the operations one day before the anniversary of the capture of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the PKK, in order to prevent any terrorist actions.

The Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD) has launched a campaign dubbed "year of investment."

Incidents of armed violence have slightly increased last year compared to previous years across the country, according to a report released by a prominent Turkish non-governmental organization dedicated to reducing personal gun ownership.

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus on Feb. 3, Turkey's disaster management agency AFAD reported.

The quake took place at 00:03 a.m. local time (2103 GMT) about 136 kilometers (84.5 miles) off Antalya province, according to AFAD.

It occurred at a depth of 13.20 kilometers (8.20 miles) below the surface, it added.