Muratpaşa

A man has hunted birds with a rifle in the center of the Muratpaşa district of the Mediterranean province of Antalya.

Two 2,000-year-old granite columns dating back to the Roman era, which previously made headlines after a local used them as an apartment building decoration, were taken on July 3 to a museum in the southern province of Antalya.

The Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, which will be held between July 6 and 9 in Kaleiçi, the historic city center of Antalya, will feature installations by seven artists in seven different locations. 

Controversy has been stirred in the southern province of Antalya after a local man put two 2,000-year-old granite columns dating back to the Roman era in front of his apartment building.

A number of district mayors from opposition parties in the Mediterranean Turkish province of Antalya have said they were not allowed to go abroad to attend a key recent tourism event in Moscow due to the ongoing state of emergency. 

The Antalya Police Department has sparked debate after issuing a statement on April 27 on a ban on alcohol consumption in outdoor locations on possibilities that drinking could cause "disturbance" to the surrounding. 

A court in the southern province of Antalya has ruled that compulsory religion classes are "openly against the law," following a complaint filed by an atheist family. 

An atheist family applied to court in order to exempt their child, identified only by the initials as E.D., from compulsory religion classes, Doğan News Agency reported on March 15.