Bolu

A fire that erupted in the northwestern province of Bolu on Sept. 2 burned around 100 hectares of forest land to ash before being brought under control after two days, Bolu Director of Forestry Hasan Keskin stated on Sept. 5. 

The death toll in traffic accidents across Turkey rose to 86 on the 8th day of the extended 10-day long Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) public holiday.

Some 384 people were injured in road accidents during the same period. 

A total of 16 people were killed and 16 were injured on the 8th day of the public holiday alone in different accidents across Turkey.

A 7,300-square-meter "Lotus Flower and Bonsai Art Park," which will be home to Turkey's biggest lotus breeding pond with 200 different types of endemic lotus flowers, plants and trees indigenous to the city and a bonsai greenhouse, will be opened by the end of this summer to nature enthusiasts on the northwestern province of Bolu's Alpağutbey neighborhood. 

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded between three and 600 years in jail for eight former judges and prosecutors who took part in the Ergenekon investigations and prosecutions, which saw the arrest and trial of hundreds of mostly military personnel, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has prepared a list of 12 guidelines warning participants in the party's "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul against any "provocations," its Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on June 27.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said that he wants a Turkey free of tension. 

"Turkey has suffered and has been suffering from tensions. I wish for a Turkey that we can get rid of tensions," Kılıçdaroğlu said in the western province of Bolu on the 10th day of his party's "justice march."

Imprisoned main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu's lawyers have appealed to the Constitutional Court over his imprisonment. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli after the latter accused the CHP leader of supporting the U.S. based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is believed to have been the mastermind of the July 15, 2016, coup attempt. 

An old Ottoman town with scenic landscapes and historic memories, the Göynük district of the northwestern province of Bolu has been declared as the latest addition to a network of slow cities by the Cittaslow General Committee. 

Eleven Turkish cities have so far been declared as a slow city by the committee. 

A municipality in the western province of Bolu has cited "having stray cats inside" as justification for issuing a closure warning to a local Internet cafe, but its owner has vowed not to throw the cats out onto the street.

Bolu Municipality police officials stated that having cats inside the cafe was one of the reasons to warn the Internet cafe run by Olcay Özkök with closure.