Mahmut Demirtaş

The search for five of the six missing crew on board Batuhan A cargo ship that sank off in the Marmara Sea continues with an unmanned underwater robot.

Considering the possibility that the crew may have been thrown overboard, the teams are conducting their searches both above and underwater.

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the Marmara Sea rattled several northwestern provinces, including Istanbul and Bursa, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) has announced.

Christians in Istanbul gathered yesterday in the Aya Yorgi Greek Orthodox Church for a ceremony officiated by Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew.

In a speech he delivered at the mass, the patriarch wished peace in Ukraine and the world.

An entire neighborhood and tens of streets and avenues have been flooded during the unremitting rainfall which started in the southern province of Adana in the evening on Dec. 23.

A United States drone crashed in the southern province of Adana on Aug. 17. 

The cause of the crash in the province's Ceyhan district is so far unknown, and the authorities have launched an investigation.

The first statement on the crash came from Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtaş, who said the drone came down in Ceyhan's Çokçapınar area.

A new container city will be installed in the southern province of Adana for refugees who have fled from war-torn Syria, where civil has been continuing since 2011, Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtaş announced on Feb. 8, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The container city, which will be located in Adana's Sarıçam district, will host at least 25,000 refugees in 5,000 containers.

Twelve people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Tuesday when fire ravaged a dormitory for pupils in the southern Turkish region of Adana, local officials said.
The fire, which officials said was likely caused by an electrical fault, raced through the building’s wooden interior as panicked victims tried to jump from windows to safety.

A total of 12 people, mostly children, were killed and another 24 were wounded late on Nov. 29 when a fire broke out at a private girls' dormitory in the Aladağ district of the southern province of Adana.

A total of 12 people were killed and 22 were wounded late on Nov. 29 when a fire broke out at a private girls' dormitory in the Aladağ district of the southern province of Adana, the governor's office has announced.

Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtaş announced that 12 bodies, including one educator, were retrieved dead in the fire, while the 22 wounded were taken to hospital. 

Two people were killed and another 33 were injured on Nov. 24 when a bomb-laden vehicle parked in the parking lot of the governor's office in the southern province of Adana was detonated.