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Education Minister Mahmut Özer has attended the inauguration ceremony of 1,500 village life centers, stating that the ministry has prioritized their projects about improving education in the country's villages.

A documentary depicting the environmental problems the flamingos of the Delta of Gediz face has won the "Best Environmental Movie" award at the Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.

In archaeological excavations in Panaztepe, located in the Menemen district of the western province of İzmir and is believed to have been a settlement from 3,000 B.C. to the Byzantine period, structures from the oldest period of the city have been unearthed.

The largest evacuation of civilians in peacetime in Greece has started on Saturday, as authorities are preparing to dispose of 250kg WWII bomb in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. operation. Around 72,000 residents are set to be evacuated from the district of Kordelio in the western part of the city.

A Turkish businessman, who was arrested after an investigation into the July 15 failed coup attempt that was believed to have been orchestrated by the Gülen movement, died on Nov. 29 in prison in the western province of İzmir, Doğan News Agency has reported.

I am not fond of it but I will be a gossip columnist this week because this is an anecdote that confirms my presumptions about the prime minister.

Three workers were killed in an accident in an Alia?a Iron and Steel Plant in the Aegean province of ?zmir on Jan. 14.

Syrian migrants who are attempting to enter ?zmir in preparation for journeys to Greece are increasingly being prevented from reaching the Aegean Sea, while others already there are being gathered in a stadium.

Rescuers have pulled four bodies of construction workers from under scaffolding that collapsed on Aug. 4 in western Turkey.

The body of the fourth worker was found and pulled out early on Aug. 5. 

Two bodies were retrieved later on Aug. 4 night following an earlier discovery.

A worker was killed and four trapped under debris, with three still missing, in the collapse of a viaduct construction in the Aegean province of ?zmir around 1:00 p.m. on Aug 4.