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Turkey's Sakarya province offers picturesque views during autumn. (İHA Photo)

Turkey's leading bus manufacturer Otokar has won a major bus tender in Jordan.

According to the contract, Otokar will manufacture and export 136 buses, including 100 Vectio models and 36 Kent models, for the transportation needs of the Amman municipality.

Exports by carmakers based in the northwestern province of Sakarya amounted to some $2.3 billion in January-June this year.

Turkey on May 11 commemorated Sait Faik Abasıyanık, a pioneer in modern Turkish literature, on the 66th anniversary of his death.

Abasıyanık was born on Nov. 18, 1906 in northwestern Sakarya province to businessman Mehmet Faik and Makbule Hanım.

Computer servers of Sakarya University, a public research university located in the city of Adapazarı, the capital of the western province of Sakarya, have allegedly been used to mine cryptocurrency, daily Habertürk reported on May 7.