Muğla

Şenol Özbakan, a former ship skipper who lived in a minibus with 12 abandoned golden retriever and Rottweiler dogs that he adopted in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district, has died of multiple organ failure at the age of 56. 

Özbakan, who recently had a lung problem and was at risk of developing cancer, had been receiving treatment at Bodrum State Hospital.

A man in the Fethiye district of the Aegean province of Muğla has been fined to 3,731 Turkish liras (roughly $1,060) for illegally selling bats.

Şenol Özbakan, a former ship skipper who lives in a minibus with 12 abandoned golden retriever and Rottweiler dogs that he adopted in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district, has been hospitalized. 

Özbakan and his dogs, nicknamed the "Golden Gang," have thousands of followers from Turkey and all over the world on social media.

Members of the Turkish parliament's coup investigation commission have praised the role Doğan Media played in averting the coup attempt by a group of allegedly Gülenist soldiers on the night of July 15, as CNN Türk, a member of the group, was the first channel to broadcast the president's calls against the attempt. 

Ongoing excavations at the İncirliin Cave in the southwestern Turkish province of Muğla's Milas district have unearthed human bones and ceramic pieces dating back to the prehistoric and ancient ages. 

The cave, which has been declared a first degree archaeological site by the Muğla Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board, is located in Milas' Gökçeler neighborhood.

A plot to kidnap and assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the night of the July 15 coup attempt was planned a week before the failed bid, at a meeting in a mansion in Ankara, a prosecutors' indictment into 47 putschist soldiers has alleged. 

Ümmiye Koçak, the founder of the Arslanköy Women's Theater Group in the Arslanköy village in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, wants to shoot a follow-up to her first film "Yün Bebek" (Wool Doll). 

Police detained 12 suspects, arresting one of them, on Nov. 10 after a 14-year-old girl in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa said she had been raped multiple times by 12 people, Doğan News Agency has reported.

One of Turkey's most popular tourist towns, the western province of Muğla's Bodrum can now be viewed all around the world through 24-hour live broadcasts from cameras placed in various spots. 

With the initiation of the Bodrum Hoteliers' Association (BODER), test broadcasts started two months ago on the Internet. 

Turkish correspondent Nilüfer Demir, who photographed Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler who washed ashore on the Turkish coast in 2015, laying bare the tragedy of the Syrian civil war, has been named a gold medal winner for the memorial prize of the United Nations Correspondents Association.