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Antalya, one Turkey's major holiday destinations on the Mediterranean coast, has welcomed more than 3 million tourists since the start of 2021.

Nearly half of the holidaymakers visited the city in July alone, according to a statement the Antalya Governor's Office issued.

Dozens of Caretta caretta have hatched and come out their nests in the Çırali beach of the Kemer district of the southern Antalya province and met the sea this year. (AA Photo)

Phaselis, situated in the southern province of Antalya's Kemer district, was important for trade in ancient times as it had three ports. It is possible to see the wealth of the ancient city in the agoras, trade centers, bath houses and temples, expressed by ancient era writers throughout the Classic and Hellenistic periods and Roman history.

Travel writers of British The Guardian newspaper have shown Antalya's Çıralı and Patara beaches among the cleanest beaches in Europe. There are also three more Turkish beaches on the list.

A court in the Mediterranean province of Antalya has suspended the execution of a zoning plan opening the Cleopatra Cove in the resort Kemer district to construction.

The Antalya Office of the Chamber of Architects and Antalya Bar Association have urged authorities not to open Cleopatra Cove in the Mediterranean resort Kemer district to construction.

A fireworks show performed by a Turkish man to enhance his marriage proposal caused a forest fire in Turkey's resort town of Kemer on Sept. 20.

A tournament named after the late businessman Erdoğan Demirören, the founder of Demirören Holding, was held over the weekend at the Kemer Country Golf Club in Istanbul. 

A Russian tourist drowned in the sea off the Kemer district of the Mediterranean resort of Antalya on Sept. 3.

The 63-year-old tourist, identified as Olga Salomakhina, reportedly went swimming at a beach of a hotel on the coast of the Tekirova neighborhood in the evening hours after having dinner, but locals observed her standing still in the sea a while later.

Two hectares of forest land were reduced to ashes in the Mediterranean province of Antalya's touristic Kemer district on Aug. 27 while another four hectares of land burned down on the same day in the Aegean province of Muğla's Yatağan district.