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A 63-year-old man has initiated a 370-km march from the Black Sea province of Samsun towards Trabzon, another Black Sea province, to commemorate Eren Bülbül, a 15-year-old boy who was killed this month in clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and security forces, Doğan News Agency reported on Aug. 29.

Turkey bid farewell Aug. 12 to a 15-year-old boy who was killed in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Maçka district of the Black Sea province of Trabzon a day earlier, prompting condemnations from across the political spectrum.

The historic rock-carved Virgin Mary Monastery in the Black Sea province of Giresun is expected to draw a lot more interest in the near future after a more famous nearby monastery, Sümela in Trabzon, was closed for restoration work.

The Sumela Monastery, which was built in the 4th century B.C. in the northern province of Trabzon's Maçka district, is rushed by some 600,000 tourists annually, and a new lift system has been planned to help give them easier access to the monastery's amazing location. 

A soldier who died in an accident during the Turkish army's operation to evacuate a historic tomb in northern Syria has been laid to rest in his hometown, the Black Sea province of Trabzon.

Unidentified assailants have beaten a Canadian man at a park in central Istanbul.

Sjoerd Vaandering, a 72-year-old British Columbia resident, was walking in the Maçka Park early Nov. 29 when he was assaulted, Doğan News Agency reported. Vaandering was found by passersby with his belongings scattered on the pavement.