Aliağa

A devastating fire broke out on Çiçek Island near the western city of İzmir's Seferihisar district, reducing the entire area into ashes.

The blaze, which erupted in a grassy area with no settlements, quickly engulfed the entire island late on June 16.

Security and customs authorities in the western province of Izmir seized over 26 tons of raw material used in drug production, said Turkish sources on July 17. 

With 110 million cubic meters of storage and 28 million cubic meters of gasification capacity, Turkey's first publicly owned floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and gasification vessel (FSRU) will add significant flexibility to Turkey's energy supply chain security, according to Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez.

A monastery, built during the Roman period, and a 1,500-year-old mosaic have been unearthed during an illegal excavation carried out in the western province of İzmir's Aliağa district.

Turkey has the potential to attract more than 75 million foreign tourists and generate at least $65 billion in tourism revenues, Naci Ağbal, the head of Turkey's Strategy and Budget Directorate, has said.

Four workers were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion at the TÜPRAŞ Aliağa Refinery in Turkey's western Izmir province on Wednesday, District Governor Bayram Yılmaz said, Daily Sabah writes.