Akdeniz, Mersin

Turkey's Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has started a project against the poisonous puffer fish, which started being seen in the country since the 2000's and invaded the Mediterranean coast.

Fishermen will receive five Turkish Liras (80 U.S. cents) from the authorities in exchange for a tail of the puffer fish they caught within the scope of the project.

Hakkı Akdeniz, once homeless but now the owner of the famous Champion Pizza chain in New York, has received four proclamations in the United States, one from the House of Representatives.

Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean city of Antalya is on alert as nine students have been confirmed to have contracted measles. 

Twenty-seven out of 69 cancer patients received the wrong Total Body Irradiation (TBI) treatment at Akdeniz University Hospital in the Mediterranean province of Antalya between 2009 and 2016, a detailed investigation into the patients’ records has revealed.

A two-month-old Mediterranean monk seal, which was found when it washed ashore dead in the southeastern province of Antalya on Nov. 24, is set to be exhibited at Akdeniz University’s Faculty of Aquaculture Museum, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A research center at Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean province of Antalya has included “Ufology and Exopolitics” in its latest curriculum, in a bid to prepare for possible contact with visitors from outer space.

A fight erupted between locals and Syrians in the southern province of Mersin on April 17, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The fight initially began as a dispute over money between the Syrians, who are working as farm laborers, and locals. But tension rose after crowds grew around the groups. 

The fight occurred in the Adanalıoğlu neighborhood of the Akdeniz district.

A Syrian woman was killed by security forces while she was trying to cross into Turkey illegally through a mined area on the border.

The woman, identified as Nezahat Celal, reportedly was shot at around 7 p.m. on Jan. 29 near the border town of Cizre in the province of ??rnak.