Mudanya

According to the first police findings, six people lost their lives in a violent storm.
Two elderly Czech nationals were killed when strong winds swept away their travel trailer in Halkidiki, police said.

A lawsuit has been filed against the developers of the Burj Al Babas housing project on grounds that the company destroyed trees and dumped excavated soil on forestland in the district of Mudanya in the northwestern province of Bolu.

A forest fire erupted in the Aegean province of Bursa's Mudanya district on Aug. 11, turning nearly 15-20 hectares of land into ashes, Doğan News Agency reported.

A shopping mall, which has been built on top of the ancient city of Myrleia, dating back to 700 B.C. in the western province of Bursa's Mudanya district continues to stir legal debate, with a local mayor saying the municipality has made the decision to "expropriate" the area.

The body of a sculpture that was smuggled from Aphrodisias in 1904 is still in Berlin. 

1898: Ottoman Emperor Abdulhamid II provided work permit to French engineer Paul Gaudin to work in a railway construction in the Western Aegean region. He was first employed in the Bursa-Mudanya line and then in the İzmir-Eskişehir line. 

Production at French car giant Renault's factory in the Marmara province of Bursa returned to normal on March 2, a day after workers went on strike after their colleagues were laid off, a company official has told Reuters.

"Production returned to normal as of 8 a.m.," the official said.

An intercity ferry carrying passengers from Istanbul to the northwestern province of Bursa was searched late Feb. 28 due to a bomb hoax, Do?an News Agency has reported. Two suspects were detained over the incident.

Relatives have told stories of victims of a deadly attack that killed at least 28 while targeting vehicles carrying Turkish military personnel at the heart of the Turkish capital on Feb. 17.

Four bootleg booze makers have been sentenced to 16 years in prison on murder charges for illegally producing and selling alcohol which caused a number of deaths six years ago in the northwestern province of Bursa.

A group of 460 people managed to enter the Guinness Book of World Records on Aug. 30 after joining forces in Turkey's northwestern province of Bursa to form the world's biggest floating peace sign.