Manisa

A Turkish court has handed out hefty jail sentences over the death of 301 miners in Turkey's deadliest ever mine disaster in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa on May 13, 2014.

The western province of Manisa is home to three of the seven major churches of Early Christianity. Officials and tourism managers want to improve faith tourism in the city, which has already been drawing many Asian worshipers. 

Relatives of the 301 miners who lost their lives in Turkey's deadliest ever mine disaster in the Soma district of the western province of Manisa on May 13, 2014 visited the graves of the slain workers on the fourth anniversary of the disaster.

A registrar in the Turgutlu district of the Aegean province of Manisa refused to conduct a wedding when the bride made a joke during the service.

A prosecutor demanded the arrest of Soma Holding's chairman Alp Gürkan on March 26 over the 2014 disaster that claimed the lives of 301 miners in the Soma district of the Aegean province of Manisa. 

Two runaways who had escaped from a prison in the western Turkish province of Manisa have been found by the local gendarmerie units sleeping near a road, Doğan News Agency reported on Feb. 28. 

Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on Feb. 8 inaugurated a new room air-conditioner production facility in Turkey’s western province of Manisa, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

A huge rock mass in the ancient city of Aigai, located in the western Turkish province of Manisa, has been broken by treasure hunters.

A retired Turkish and literature teacher, who is living in the western province of Manisa’s Salihli district, paints fruit and human figures on the walls of houses and gardens in the Çökelek neighborhood.

A 20-year-old basic private was arrested in the Aegean province of Manisa on Sept. 6 after making a hoax call to the 112 medical emergency number and telling them to "send many ambulances to the [provincial] security directorate" or otherwise, what is thought to be a bomb would "explode."