Muğla

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. 

A total of 35 women were killed in October and 21 others were subjected to sexual violence, according to a report released by the Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu, a women's rights activist organization that keeps track of violence against women.

A fisherman living in the Aegean province of Muğla caught a rare sharksucker fish, also known as a remora, on Oct. 19, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Locals in the Bodrum were shocked at seeing the animal which normally only lives in the tropics.
The rare fish was caught by 54-year-old amateur fisherman Mustafa Yıldızhan off the Yalı neighborhood of Bodrum.

A burial chamber dating back to 2,400 years ago was recently unearthed at a construction site in the southwestern province of Muğla's Milas district.
Milas Archaeology Museum officials found 103 artifacts in the burial chamber, untouched and unlooted for millennia, which is thought to have belonged to a wealthy local family. 

National archer Nursen Çokak was killed in a traffic accident on Oct. 9 in the Aegean province of Muğla, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Çokak was driving on the Muğla-Marmaris highway heading to Marmaris with her husband Hakan Çokak and their friends when they crashed their motorcycle at around 1:00 p.m. 

Bodrum Castle, the symbol of the popular touristic town of Bodrum in Turkey's western province of Muğla, is one of the 10 new places proposed to the World Heritage Tentative list, aiming to enter UNESCO's World Heritage list.

Archaeological excavations in the 2,600-year-old ancient city of Knidos in the western province of Muğla's Datça district have unearthed new structures. 

Followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen who are attempting to escape Turkey following a crackdown in the wake of the attempted July 15 coup are being charged up to 20 times the price of 700-800 Turkish Liras that was charged for Middle Eastern refugees to flee to Greece.

Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan's finger has been partially severed in a boating accident in the Bodrum district of Muğla, where she was vacationing. 
Lohan, 30, shared the photo of her finger with the details of the accident on Oct. 2.

A police officer was killed on Sept. 28 when a gun under his pillow allegedly fired accidentally in the Köyceğiz district of the Aegean province of Muğla, Doğan News Agency has reported.
Fatih Keskin, 42, who had been working as a police officer for 21 years, was allegedly killed when the gun under his pillow accidently fired and shot him in the head.