Paragliding

Located in the country's Aegean province of Muğla's Fethiye district, Babadağ has witnessed a total of 138,158 paragliding flights —including training, amateur, and commercial flights — in just eight months.

A tragic twist of fate for his mother, who, according to ertnews.gr, had previously lost two other children in car accidents.
The 33-year-old man, originally from Lesbos, was vacationing with his wife and one of their two children, a two-year-old, when in Mandra, Avdira Municipality, Xanthi, he decided to take a paragliding flight that would prove fatal.

A 33-year-old paragliding instructor was killed in a crash after taking off from the area of Mandra, in the region of western Thrace, northern Greece, on Wednesday afternoon. 

The man appears to have lost control of the parachute and fallen from a great height. The cause of the accident remains unknown.

Kırantepe in Sakarya's Serdivan district, an area close to cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Bursa, draws great interest from paraglide enthusiasts from Türkiye and around the world.

A 43-year-old Chinese woman drowned in a paragliding accident in Lefkada on Monday.

The woman drowned after she fell into the sea with her wing. 

She had arrived in Lefkada with a group of tourists and decided to take a paraglider to fly above the west coast of the island. 

Orkut Baysal, one of the athletes of the National Paragliding Team, lost his life as two parachutes collided and fell during the landing in southwestern province of Muğla's Fethiye district.

On April 29, 30-year-old professional paraglider Orkut Baysal jumped from the 1,700-meter runway of Babadağ in Ölüdeniz neighborhood with Andaç Ünsal, whom he was currently training.

A paraglider flies over Lake Van in Turkey's eastern Van province. (AA Photo)

A professional tandem paraglider recently flew over the white thermal pools of the southwestern Pamukkale region with a motorcycle he tied to his parachute.

Hasan Kaval, who took off by riding the motorcycle attached to the parachute, recorded his flight with an action camera over the travertines for 20 minutes and landed in the Kocaçukur region.

Located 8.5 kilometers south of the resort town of Fethiye, Ölüdeniz is a well-known site for paragliding activities performed from Mt. Babadağ, which is a steep peak rising right next to the blue Mediterranean Sea. (AA Photo)

A woman has marked her divorce by paragliding to a party in the Bursa province where her friends met her to celebrate the end of her marriage.