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Özdemir Turan seems like the last of a dying breed, but if he has his way, he won't. After more than five decades engaged in the wire-walking business - a traditional Turkish art that dates back millennia - the 67-year-old says he's as keen as ever to pass along his craft to someone from the younger generation.

A $6,000 fuel subsidy for each airplane carrying tourists to certain airports in Turkey has been extended from June until September, Culture and Tourism Minister Mahir Ünal has said. 

Turkey will offer jet fuel subsidies for flights to five of its tourist hot spots as part of its efforts to safeguard tourism revenue after a suicide bombing in Istanbul last week killed 10 German tourists.

Increasing the number of public-private partnerships (PPPs) will be a key factor in developing Turkey's economy, a senior official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said.

The number of British tourists visiting Turkey has been decreasing amid security and political concerns, according to sector representatives, compounding the issue of the country losing around 30 percent of its Russian tourists, mainly due to economic problems in Russia. 

A driver of a crane died after entering a military site by driving over its barriers and falling into a large ditch as soldiers shot at the vehicle's tires to stop him in Turkey's Aegean province of Mu?la.

A number of forested bays in one of Turkey?s most beautiful coastal idylls will be opened to tender by the Forestry and Waterworks Ministry, though many locals are opposed to the move and claim it will allow rapid ?concretization,? as is the case elsewhere in the country.

Despite the ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East, Turkey?s Mediterranean resort town of Marmaris, already popular among British and Russians tourists, is becoming an increasingly popular center of attraction for Arab tourists.

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The Foreign Ministry has refuted media reports suggesting that thousands of foreign tourists had not been allowed to enter Turkey with e-visas at Dalaman Airport and Milas-Bodrum Airport, and that some of them had even been sent back to their home countries.