Bilecik

Three people were detained for smuggling cobra venom in an operation carried out in Bilecik province on March 28.

Those who are aiming to destroy the brotherhood and unity of the Turkish people will never be successful, Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, vowing that Turkey will continue to serve as the protector of all those who are in need in the wider region. 

Some 41 people lost their lives and 290 were injured in road accidents across Turkey in the first five days of the extended 10-day-long Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) holiday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Aug. 30. 

On the fifth day of the holiday alone, Aug. 30, some 12 people were killed and 78 were injured in accidents across the country, the agency stated. 

One in every eight people in Turkey is in need of aid, according to statistics released by the Family and Social Policies Ministry upon a parliamentary question submitted by independent Ankara lawmaker Aylin Nazlıaka. 

The ministry said social aid was given to a total of 10,610,928 people in 2016, daily Birgün reported on June 23.

Anxiety has risen among villagers living in the western province of Bilecik after an "unidentified creature" started hunting their dogs, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  

Mustafa Yılmaz, the village head of Dübekli, said at least 30 dogs in their village were killed by an unknown reason in one month.

The mansion of Colonel İbrahim Çolak, one of the heroes of the Turkish War of Independence, has been restored to its original and turned into a museum in the northwestern province of Bilecik's Bozüyük district. 

Çolak, who served in the Ottoman army during the Balkan Wars and World War I, was a critical in figure in the beginning of the War of Independence in Anatolia. 

Turkey's elderly population has risen by 17.1 percent over the past five years, according to statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on March 16. 

TÜİK stated that the population of people over 65 years old in Turkey had risen to 6,651,503 in 2016, up from 5,682,003 in 2012. 

The Hagios Georgios Church, which was built in the northwestern province of Bilecik's Osmaneli district at the end of 1800s and now lies in ruins, will be converted into a museum after a restoration process.

The restoration project of the historical structure has been approved by the Council of Monuments and is set to be finished in two years.

A teacher who was dismissed over suspected links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) has killed himself in the northwestern Turkish province of Bilecik. 

Turkey's Forestry Ministry is set to plant plane tree saplings in the northwestern town of Sö?üt as well as Istanbul due to the significance the tree possessed during the Ottoman era.