Antalya

A waterfall in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya has dried out due to the effects of global warming and low precipitation in a time when environmental disasters because of climate change are becoming more common.

The Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) increased by 3.9 percent month on month in August, the Turkish Central Bank said in a monthly report on Oct. 18.

The index "recorded an annual increase of 33.4 percent in nominal terms and 11.9 percent in real terms," it said.

Turkey has decided to buy four firefighting planes "soon," following the 299 wildfires that erupted in 49 out of all 81 provinces between July 28 and Aug. 12, according to the aviation columnist of daily Hürriyet.

"The buying process will be conducted over by the presidency of defense industries," Uğur Cebeci wrote on Oct. 13.

Property sales to foreigners in Turkey rose by 25.8 percent annually in September, the country's statistical authority announced on Oct. 13.

Foreigners bought 6,630 properties during the month, according to a statement by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

Among all house sales, 4.5 percent were made to foreigners.

Treasure hunters have exploded the entrance of a 2,500-year-old rock-cut tomb, one of the six ancient sepulchres in the Elmalı district of the southern province of Antalya.
"These are cultural heritages, we must protect them to leave to the next generations," Durmuş Altan, an archaeologist, told Demirören News Agency on Oct. 6.

World record holder freediver Fatma Uruk has alleged that she faced mobbing and psychological pressure at the national team camp in the southern province of Antalya.

Turkey has started mass production of 122 domestically designed patrol boats to secure the country's coasts, the project's in charge said on Oct. 3. 

The boats will be supplied by the defense and shipbuilding industry to the Coast Guard Command and General Directorate of Security.

The project is run by ARES Shipyard in the southern province of Antalya.

Lake Avlan, a major lake in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya, has completely dried out due to the effects of global warming and irresponsible agricultural irrigation.

Lack of rainfall and irresponsible agricultural irrigation has turned the freshwater lake of 850 hectares in the province of Antalya's Elmalı district into a desert.

It has been reported that the 28th International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival, organized by the General Directorate of State Opera and Ballet in the southern province of Antalya, has welcomed the highest number of people this year.

Works for the "Lycia-Kaş Underwater Art Park," where replicas of smuggled historical Lycian civilization artifacts will be exhibited under the sea in the southern province of Antalya's Kaş district, will be finished soon.