Yalova

Turkey's Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) confronted a fresh attack when its election bureau building in the Alt?nova district of the western province of Yalova was attacked by armed gunmen early April 26.

Turkish officials have launched a probe after a teacher posed for a photo with her students who made a snowwoman that ?violates social values,? Turkish media reported April 7.

Turkish Education Minister Nabi Avc? has demanded an investigation into the death of a teacher who died of a heart attack in western Yalova province soon after the governor reprimanded him for his physical appearance at the school, while teachers did not attend their first classes in memory of their colleague.

A teacher has died of a heart attack in western Turkey during a protest against a governor who had reprimanded him for his physical appearance at the school.

Halil Serkan Öz, an award-winning mathematics teacher at Termal Science High School in the Yalova province, was harshly criticized by Governor Selim Cebiro?lu in front of his students on March 27.

A Turkish actor, who was claimed to be suffering from a psychological disorder, has slit his father's throat in the Kahta district of the southeastern province of Ad?yaman.

A monument will be built in the western province of Yalova in memory of a Japanese engineer who committed suicide after holding himself responsible for a recent accident at the ?zmit-Yalova bridge construction site.

Kishi Ryoichi, 51, who was working on the bridge connecting ?zmit and Yalova, was found dead on March 23, while a suicide note found on the scene.

Property sales increased by 15 percent from the same month of the previous year with the help of a decrease in the interest rates on housing loans, said the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) in a statement on March 24.

The surge came after a drop of 1.7 percent in January.

Turkey's ship and yacht exports reached $1.3 billion in 2014, a 10.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to figures compiled from the Turkish Exporters' Assembly database.

Some 72 percent of the exports were made from Istanbul and 18 percent from the northwestern province of Yalova.

The municipality of Yalova has caused an uproar after cutting over 150 trees in the city center for the construction of an overpass Nov. 27.

The decision has sent the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), which won the municipality in the March 30 local elections after a very tight race that included a vote recount, into soul-searching over its urban policies.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost out in two provinces, but won in five of 13 district municipalities, in partial reruns of the June 1 local polls.

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Vefa Salman won in the northwestern province of Yalova with 29,227 votes, 228 ahead of the AKP’s candidate, Yakup Koçal.