Turtle

Green sea turtles have started laying eggs in Turkey's southern province of Adana.

The Akyatan Wildlife Development Area, an internationally important wetland located between Akyatan, the largest lagoon of Çukurova Delta, and the Mediterranean, welcomes green sea turtles every summer.

Volunteers and officials have been on night watch along the 22-kilometer (13.6-mile) coast.

The endangered Caretta caretta sea turtles are at the risk of experiencing cold shock due to hypothermia with the onset of winters as the air cools down, said Professor Yakup Kaska, the head of the Sea Turtles Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (DEKAMER), adding that there is no problem in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas at present.

Thai turtle Goody lost her left flipper years ago after she was entangled in a fishing net, leaving her immobile and stressed out in captivity. But now Goody, an endangered olive ridley sea turtle, can swim with ease again, after receiving Thailand's first prosthetic flipper last week. (Source: Reuters)

Over 70,000 baby sea turtles crawled into the sea from Turkey's Mediterranean coast this year, an official said on Oct. 8.

A man lost his life in southwestern Turkey on Aug. 15 while trying to rescue a stranded turtle.

About 70,000 endangered sea turtle hatchlings are expected to crawl into the sea from Turkey's southern coast this summer. 

The first batch of native baby turtles hatched on July 24 at a protected beach of Turkey's Aegean coast.

Record numbers of newborn sea turtles have crawled into the Mediterranean Sea from the shore of Çıralı in Turkey’s southern province of Antalya, the leader of an environmentalist group said on Nov. 5.

AFP - More than 300 sea turtles from an endangered species were found dead on a beach in southern Mexico, trapped in a banned type of fishing net, environmental authorities said.

A dead sea turtle is seen off the port of Nafplio on Wednesday. The turtle had a large gash in its shell, according to rescuers. Conservation groups say dead turtles are an increasingly common sight, noting that many get trapped in fishing nets or injured by speedboats. [Evangelos Bougiotos/ANA-MPA]