Red Sea Riviera

With the weather getting warmer, the diving season has started in the western province of Balıkesir's Ayvalık district, famous for its red coral reefs and deep blue waters.

A plane doing a charter flight from the Polish city of Wroclaw to the Egyptian resort of Hurghada had to land in Sofia because of the aggressive behavior of a drunken passenger.

Turkish Airlines CornDonn flew yesterday afternoon from Wroclaw Airport. After taking other tourists from Poznan, the machine headed for its final destination in Egypt.

Berlin on Saturday said two women who were killed after being stabbed in an Egyptian beach resort were German nationals, comfirming earlier reports, according to the Local.de.

Two tourists have been killed and four others wounded after a knife attack at an Egyptian Red Sea resort in Hurghada.
The attacker has been arrested and is currently being interrogated to determine his motives, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said.
The two women who have died are believed to be Ukrainian but no further details have been given.

Three armed men opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Red Sea city of Hurghada, which is one of the most popular resorts.

The attack took place at Bella Vista Hotel, as international media report while security sources confirmed to Reuters that two tourists were injured.

A string of British airlines have again delayed the resumption of regular flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following a plane crash earlier this year.

The airlines first suspended flights after the crash of a Russian airliner near the Red Sea holiday destination on Oct. 31 in which all 224 people on board died.

Turkish Airlines has extended its cancelation of all flights to and from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh until Nov. 30 due to security concerns, Turkey's national air carrier announced on Nov. 15.

"Because of security issues over the airfield of Sharm el-Sheikh, our flights have been mutually canceled till Nov. 30, 2015," the company said in a statement.

Egypt stands to lose 2.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($280 million) a month from Britain and Russia's decision to suspend flights after the Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou said on Nov. 11. 

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team told Reuters Nov. 8, as countries increased their efforts to get their stranded citizens out of Egypt.

About 11,000 Russian tourists have been evacuated from Egypt over the past 24 hours in the aftermath of the deadly Russian plane crash, according to official data, TASS reported on Sunday.

"Today, the number will be even higher," the Russian news agency quoted  Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich as saying.