Sarıkamış

A tragic accident has unfolded in the northeastern province of Kars' Sarıkamış district when a passenger bus overturned into a stockade on July 30, leaving seven people dead and 22 others injured, as per preliminary reports.

Thousands of people marched on Jan. 8 in the eastern province of Kars to commemorate the tens of thousands of Ottoman soldiers killed in the Sarıkamış operation during World War I.

The starting point of the march was Kızılçubuk, where the ill-fated operation against the Russian Caucasus Army began.

Turkey's eastern Kars province's Sarıkamış district astonishes visitors and onlookers with its natural beauties during the fall season. (AA Photo)

A tender notice has been published by Turkey's Culture and Tourism Ministry to rent a hunting lodge built by the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in the eastern province of Kars for 49 years.

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Butterflies in Turkey's Kars province's Sarıkamış district, one of the highest-altitude settlements in the country, attract attention with their enchanting colors. (AA Photo)

Nature revives after winter in eastern Kars province's Sarıkamış district. (AA Photo)

Ski tracks surrounded by Scotch pine forests and natural beauty attract thousands of visitors to the Cıbıltepe Ski Center in the Sarıkamış district of the northeastern province of Kars. (AA Photo)

A Caucasian lynx, which is an endangered species, was spotted in the Scots pine forests in the eastern province of Kars' Sarıkamış district on Dec. 7.

The only migratory brown bears in the world live in the Sarıkamış district of the eastern province of Kars. Before hibernation every year they travel long distances, walking to Artvin in the north in order to find food. This year, they have already returned to their nests in the Sarıkamış forest to go on a months-long sleep.

Thousands of people gathered together on Jan. 6 to march in eastern Turkey to commemorate the martyrs of the World War I Battle of Sarıkamış.