Karasu

Turkish textile and garment manufacturers are scrambling to meet booming orders amid the novel coronavirus as the sector is already running at 85 percent capacity.

Already one of the most prominent textile and clothing producers, Turkey is now raising its sight for a higher rise in exports, setting their eye on the U.S. market.

Two beaches in Karasu district of northwestern Turkish province of Sakarya, have been awarded the blue flag tag -- an international label, denoting high standards of cleanliness, pristine waters and other parameters.

Local authorities in the Karasu district of the western province of Sakarya are working to determine the source of an epidemic that is believed to have been caused by norovirus.

A court in the northeastern province of Erzincan has cancelled the environmental clearance for a hydroelectric (HES) dam planned for construction on the Karasu River.

An ammunition box, believed to have come from a previously sunken Russian intelligence boat, was found washed ashore on May 7 on a beach in Karasu, a town in the northwestern Turkish province of Sakarya on the Black Sea coast. 

The discovery was reportedly made by a local fisherman, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  

At least six members of the same family have been killed after their car plunged into a roadside river in Turkey's eastern Erzurum province.

According to the Turkish gendarmerie, the accident took place when the driver, identified as Muhammer Acabay, lost control of the vehicle late July 15 near the Beyp?nar neighborhood of the Aziziye district in Erzurum.

An amateur rower has arrived in Istanbul after completing an epic three month journey along the Black Sea coast, which he undertook to draw attention to the danger of nuclear plants in a region hit by a manic spree of ecology-damaging energy investments.