Çanakkale Province

Tens of thousands staged a large protest on the outskirts of a small town in the northwestern province of Çanakkale on Aug. 5. against what they say will be pollution from a foreign-owned gold mine project.

Assos, known today as the village of Behramkale in Ayvacık district in the northwestern province of Çanakkale, was one of the most important port cities in the Age of Antiquity. It is one of the few ancient cities in the world where excavations started in the 1800s - and have continued without interruption since 1981.

Tourists are increasingly "catching wind" of Gökçeada - Turkey's largest island - as an attractive surfing destination with

Troy Museum, located at the entrance to the ancient city of Troy in the northwestern province of Çanakkale, is now a candidate for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) for 2020 by the European Museum Forum (EMF).

A big step has been taken in the construction of the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait after a 65,000-ton caisson was placed on the seabed near the European shore.

Visitors from Australia and New Zealand on April 25 morning attended a dawn ceremony marking the 104th anniversary of the World War One Battle of Gallipoli at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey's northwestern province of Çanakkale.

Officials and citizens commemorated 81 sailors who tragically died after their TGC Dumlupınar submarine sank in the Dardanelles Strait in 1953 in the northwestern province of Çanakkale.

People flocked to the historical peninsula of Gallipoli ahead of the 104th-year anniversary ceremonies to be held today due to the Martyrs' Day and Çanakkale Victory.

Some 17,750 square meters of abandoned fishing nets have been removed from Turkish waters around the Dardanelles Strait and the islands of Bozcaada (or Tenedos) and Gökçeada (or Imbros) since 2016 as part of an Agriculture and Forestry Ministry project.

The protected fan mussel species Pinna nobilis, a large species of Mediterranean clam, has been transported to another area due to the construction of the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in the northwestern province of Çanakkale.