Ovacık

A ceremony was held in Elazığ for 4 soldiers who were martyred when their armored vehicle overturned while on duty in Ovacık district of Tunceli. After the ceremony, the bodies of the martyrs wrapped in Turkish flags were carried on the shoulders of their fellow soldiers and sent off to their hometowns by airplanes.

Turkey's highest snow depth has been measured at the summit of Mount Kartalkaya, one of the significant and busy winter tourism centers located in Turkey's northwestern province of Bolu.

The eastern province of Tunceli, where Pülümür, Tağar, Mercan and Havaçor valleys are located, attracts visitors with its white appearance in winter and lush green in summer along with the Munzur Valley National Park, which is one of the largest national parks in Turkey.

An increase in intercity travels in the ongoing three-week school break can trigger a surge in COVID-19 cases similar to the one Turkey experienced during the Eid al-Adha holiday in 2020 summer, Tevfik Özlü from the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board has warned as the hotels in ski resorts and tourism hotspots have started operating at nearly full capacity.

Fog covers the top of the Munzur Mountain in Tunceli province's Ovacık district. (AA Photo)

People walk around partially melted glacier lake with the arrival of spring at Mercan Valley in the Ovacık district of eastern Tunceli province. (AA Photo)

Three people have been fined a total of 180,489 Turkish Liras for picking inverted tulips under protection in Tunceli's Ovacık district in central eastern Anatolia. The inverted tulips, also whimsically called 'crying brides' by locals, grow in mountainous regions of Anatolia in the spring. AA photo

A short-eared forest owl, whose population is shrinking, has been photographed in the Ovacık district of the eastern province of Tunceli. The owl, which is active at night and hunts small bird species and mice to eat, was seen close to a settlement area in Pulur neighborhood before it disappeared.

A fox that has trouble finding food in the eastern province of Tunceli's snowbound Ovacık district is fed by an animal lover, Erdal Varlıel, and his friends. 

Kemal Özer, a journalist and nature photographer for daily Evrensel, was detained by police as part of an anti-terrorism probe in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli late on Sept. 4, Doğan News Agency has reported.  

Özer's vehicle was stopped at a police checkpoint at the entrance of Tunceli city center while he was returning from the province's Ovacık district.