Mersin

A fake dentist who has been doing under-the-counter treatment for 20 years has been arrested in the southern province of Mersin.

The provincial police's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Branch teams carried out an operation upon a notification made via the Presidential Communications Center (CİMER).

The court has converted the detention of the museum director, who prepared a report claiming that Donatello's David sculpture was fake, into house arrest within the scope of a historical artifact smuggling operation in the Aegean province of Aydın.

A Roman Bath, which was built in the fifth century A.D. and used for 200 years, has been restored in the ancient port city Anemurium, located on a 600-hectare area in the southern province of Mersin. While the cleaning and restoration works of the floor mosaic in the dressing room of the bath continue, this year the bath started to host visitors.

A total of 123,491 houses changed hands in Türkiye in August, marking a 12.7 percent decline from a year ago that followed the 12.9 percent year-on-year decline in sales in July.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has announced that 75 suspects were detained in an anti-drug operation in the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir.

Elaborating on the file consisting of 153 suspects, some of whom were detained in a six-month period, he said that another 75 suspects, including drug dealers, suppliers and shippers, were detained on Sept. 9.

A Caretta caretta that was struggling for life as it had ingested plastic debris, causing it gastrointestinal problems, has been released into the sea after getting treatment for one-and-a-half years and has traveled 600 kilometers (372 miles) since then.

A fast-spreading forest wildfire broke out in Gülnar district of the Mediterranean Turkish province of Mersin on Sept. 7 and continued on the second day. 

Authorities evacuated over 300 houses as a main road connecting Mersin with the resort city of Antalya has been closed. 

Turkish people celebrate Victory Day on Aug. 30, marking the 100th anniversary of when Turkish armies succeeded in the Great Offensive under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Türkiye, against occupying Greek forces on the same date in 1922.

House sales increased by 24.2 percent in January-July from a year ago, while sales to foreigners grew more than 57 percent year-on-year, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) have shown.

With a notion on his mind "all one need is a piece of land and 1,000 liras," Hayrettin Çağrı Ezerer decided to leave the city life and his doctoral academic career behind to settle in his hometown in the southern province of Mersin.

Ezerer, 35-year-old, returned to his hometown six years ago, built a farm and continued his life at the summit of the Taurus Mountains.