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Municipal teams have orchestrated efforts to diligently prepare over 80 public beaches in Türkiye's tourism hub Bodrum for the upcoming season, bracing for the imminent influx of visitors.

Following the deadly quakes that jolted Türkiye's south in early February, an expected Istanbul tremor that experts for long have been warning about has come to the agenda once again, with the number of city's residents who prefer to settle down in Bodrum is on the rise.

NATO's maritime exercise, Breeze 2019, is underway in Bulgaria.

Thousands of flamings flock to Turkish resort town of Bodrum after decline in illegal hunting

A British tourist has been arrested in Turkey after he reportedly attempted to fly home with coins he found while snorkelling, according to the Independent.co.uk.

Toby Robyns was detained at Bodrum airport on Friday on suspicion of "finding Turkish artefacts without notifying authorities", The Sun said.

Police have detained a cook in the western Turkish resort town of Bodrum after he reportedly stabbed his fiancé, a British citizen, in her throat and face.

A recent athletics competition in the western touristic district of Bodrum has been lambasted due to the severe lack of proper equipment and officials, prompting Youth and Sports Ministry to launch an investigation.

Coast Guard teams in the southwestern Turkish district of Bodrum searched Colombian tourists on Oct. 26 after suspecting that a family in a tour boat might be refugees trying to cross the Aegean Sea, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Tourists on the boat spotted people who were swimming with life jackets near the boat, believing that they were migrants. 

Four Iraqi migrants, including two children, drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish resort town of Bodrum early on Dec. 18.

The boat carrying a total of eight Iraqi migrants capsized off the Aegean province of Mu?la, leaving four dead, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

Turkish fishermen found the dead body of a 4-year-old Syrian migrant girl off Turkey's Bodrum coast on Nov. 22, four days after a migrant dinghy capsized. The girl's fate was reminiscent of that of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body washed up on the shore of Bodrum in September, triggering worldwide outrage.