Bozcaada, Çanakkale

The European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (ECBCMM) completed one of its most important projects over the summer: the conservation of the ecclesiastical equipment of two churches of Imbros (Gokceada in Turkish), the birthplace of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and 42 portable icons from the Church of the Virgin Mary of Tenedos (Bozcaada in Turkish).

Security forces have found that the fire in Bozcaada, an island off the Aegean province of Çanakkale, was deliberately set, as the perpetrator was captured on surveillance cameras igniting dry grass.

Çanakkale, one of the Turkish provinces most afflicted by forest fires this year, found itself once again besieged by flames on Aug. 15, while another inferno raged into its second day in the western city of Manisa.

A portion of Bozcaada, one of the country's most significant natural beauties and tourist destinations, is being put up for sale due to disagreements over family inheritance.

A court in the northwestern province of Çanakkale announced on July 7 that 33 immovable properties on a total area of 1 million square meters in Bozcaada will be sold by tender.

Two Greek coastguard boats fired harassment fire on the Comoros-flagged Ro-Ro ship "Anatolian," which was sailing in international waters off the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale, the Turkish Coast Guard Command said on Sept. 10

The fifth Bozcaada Jazz Festival, presenting the masters of jazz on stage and bringing musicians from different generations together with the audience, will be organized on Aug. 20, 21 and 22.

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Turkey's northwestern region has enjoyed a relatively warm weather free of precipitation over the past few weeks, but a cold spell, accompanied by heavy downpours and strong winds, has returned.

Istanbul, a metropolis with more than 16 million population, was battered by heavy rainfall in the early hours of April 8 following warnings from the meteorological authority and experts.

A Russian naval cruiser had to cast anchor due to strong currents and bad weather in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Jan. 6, according to a Turkish security source.

The Slava-class Marshal Ustinov anchored off the neighborhood of Moda, on Istanbul's Asian side, since conditions did not allow for it to dock, said the source.

Ann Abel, a travel columnist for the renowned U.S.-based Forbes magazine, has recently penned an article on one of Turkey's attraction spots, Bozcaada, dubbing it as a "secret Aegean island paradise."

Bozcaada, one of the most popular tourism destinations in the northern Aegean, reunites with its millennial silhouette with the renovation of its historic windmills on its northern and southern sides of the island.