Aladağ

The population of wild goats in Turkey's Aladağlar National Park and Demirkazık Wildlife Development Site has topped 2200. (AA Photo)

Turkey's Education Ministry has issued a reprimand to a district director of national education following complaints by parents whose children were killed in a dormitory fire in the southern district of Aladağ in the Adana province in November 2016 which had killed 12, including 11 teenage girls.

An Adana court has postponed the case into the deadly Aladağ dormitory fire that killed 11 children and one adult on Nov. 29, 2016 in the southern province of Adana to July 17, Doğan News Agency reported on May 30.

One of the students injured in the fire, 13-year-old Seda Topbaş, gave testimony to court in the trial, saying the fire exit was locked when the fire erupted.

An indictment prepared by the Aladağ Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has pressed involuntary manslaughter charges against seven suspects over the deadly dormitory fire in the southern Turkish province of Adana, seeking prison terms between two and 15 years, media outlets reported on May 4. 

Some 56 percent of dormitory buildings in Istanbul are inconvenient, a parliamentary commission, which was set up after a dormitory fire on Nov. 29, 2016 in the southern province of Adana's Aladağ district killed 12 people, said March 9, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.   

A court in the southern province of Adana on Feb. 6 ordered the arrest of four suspects who were previously released in the case of a deadly fire at a private girl's dormitory in the Aladağ district that claimed 12 lives, Doğan News Agency Agency has reported.

A new ski center, which is currently under construction on the Aladağ Mountain in the central Anatolian province of Konya's Derbent district, is set to open as the longest in Turkey with a 30-kilometer ski track. 

A local court in the southern province of Adana on Jan. 23 ordered the release of four of seven arrested suspects over a deadly fire at a private girls' dormitory in the Aladağ district that claimed 12 lives, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A local court in the southern province of Adana on Dec. 4 ordered the arrest of four suspects over a deadly fire at a private girls' dormitory in Adana's Aladağ district, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Among the arrested suspects were dormitory manager Cumali Genç and the head of the Aladağ Aid Association to Course and School Students, identified only as İsmail U.

A fire broke out on Dec. 1 in the Aladağ district of the southern province of Adana, marking the second such incident in a week in the district after a dormitory fire that killed 12 people on Nov. 29, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported. 

There were no immediate reports of casualties, the channel said.  

Firefighters at the scene later managed to extinguish the fire.