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Property sales to foreigners hit record high levels in May with the sale of 1,982 units, marking a 21.3 percent increase from the same month in 2014, despite a general slowing-down in the sector across Turkey, according to data revealed by the Turkish Statistics Agency (TÜ?K). 

The name of a street in the Aegean province of Ayd?n has been changed from Kenan Evren Street to Erdal Eren Street to honor a 17-year-old high school student who was executed following the 1980 Turkish military coup led by Kenan Evren.

The provincial education head in the Aegean province of Ayd?n reportedly instructed all schools to bring their students to a rally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in the area, according to the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP).

The provincial education head in the Aegean province of Ayd?n reportedly instructed all schools to bring their students to a rally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in the area, according to the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP).

A spectators' stand in the Aegean province of Ayd?n collapsed during a college football match on May 5, leaving nine students injured.

A total of 34 migrants who set sail from Turkey en route to Greece were rescued April 19 after their boat sank off of Turkey's southwestern coast. 

Initially, the Turkish Coast Guard rescued three migrants, including a three-year-old child, from a boat that sank off the coast of the southwestern province of Bodrum.

Nineteen-year-old Asl? Alk?? returned home Feb. 20 after becoming the first Turkish woman to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.
 
Alk??, a member of Ku?adas? Mountaineering and Nature Sports Association in the western Turkish province of Ayd?n, took six days to accomplish the mission, which ended on Feb. 18.
      

Sevim Üçgül, a housewife from the Aegean province of Ayd?n, has won a two-year legal battle against a dishwasher maker - after serving the case's judge tea in an unclean glass. 

Üçgül said she bought a machine in 2011 for 1,440 liras, as the seller had convinced her that it was superior to cheaper rival brands, daily Hürriyet reported.