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The Mayor of Alanya, Adem Murat Yucel, and the Governor of Alanya, Fatih Urkmezer, attended the ceremony in Brussels to receive this prestigious title. What it means to be named "Mediterranean Capital of Sports" can be read here: https://t.me/alanyabrand/6042 or https://alanyabrand.ru/article/alanya-mozhet-stat-sredizemnomorskoj-stolitsej-sporta-2024.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) has released gross domestic product data by province for 2022. Istanbul became the province with the highest share of GDP with 4 trillion. 564 m.lrd 280 million liras, accounting for 30.4 percent of the total income. It is followed by Ankara with 1 trillion. 329 billion 810 million liras and a share of 8.9 % and Izmir with 972 billion 238 million liras and a share of 6.5 %. The five provinces with the highest share of GDP accounted for 53.9 percent of all revenues in 2022. Tunceli, Ardahan and Bayburt provinces were at the end of the list.

The Ministry of Family and Social Services announced that the support of citizens for natural gas has been increased to 188-438 liras per month under a new decree. The ministry issued a written statement on the new decree announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after a cabinet meeting.

Municipal elections will be held throughout the country on March 31, 2024, but all parties have already started their election campaigns. The upcoming elections are of great importance to the ruling party led by the Turkish president, as Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and several other major cities in the country are ruled by opposition mayors. It is clear that the Justice and Development Party (Turkish: AKP) will try to return to power in these most important metropolitan areas of the country.

The most popular car brand was Fiat, followed by Renault, Volkswagen, Peogeout, Opel, Hyundai, Dacia, Skoda, Citroen and Toyota. Perhaps the reason for the increased demand was the first 25% reduction in car prices in 3 years amidst general inflation in the country. However, CarData CEO Husamettin Yalcin and Otomerkez.net CEO Mohammad Ali Karakash said that car prices may rise again from the beginning of 2024.

Russians preferred to spend New Year holidays in Thailand, which has the largest number of bookings. Thailand is followed by Turkey and the UAE.As for the cost, Thailand is also in first place. The cost of a 10-day tour with departure from Moscow starts from 120 thousand rubles. A similar tour to Dubai costs from 100 thousand rubles, and in Turkey - from 66 thousand rubles.If we talk in general about the year 2023, the most popular tourist destination among Russians was Turkey, which in total was visited by more than 5 million citizens of the Russian Federation.

Presumably the Declaration on Friendly Relations and Good Neighborliness will be signed on December 7 during the Turkish President's official visit to Athens. "Greece is our neighboring country and we will always remain neighbors. We share the same geography, the same sea. We breathe the same air. We are bound by our past. There are many issues that we have not yet been able to resolve between us. Both countries know that. However, it is up to us whether we allow these issues to cause tensions and disagreements between our governments and our peoples," Erdogan said in an interview with Greek newspaper Kathimerini.

The TRNC authorities are considering a proposal to allow foreigners to buy up to 3 properties and title them. Now each adult foreigner has the right to buy no more than 1 property. It is still unclear how much this innovation will be of interest to investors, as in most cases they sell their purchased objects on the assignment of ownership, without spending extra money on title registration. However, for ordinary buyers who wish to acquire more than one apartment/villa in their personal possession, this law will certainly be of interest.

Images of the crying pensioner went viral on all social networks. As it turned out, the statement on him filed by his ex-wife, with whom he divorced 25 years ago and who now lives in Australia. In the evening of the same day, Zyufta Shirin was released home. However, the incident ended happily: the President of the Association for the Protection of Men, who learned about the situation, fully repaid the pensioner's debt to his ex-wife.

The General Directorate of the Ministry of National Education has approved the curriculum for students in grades 5-12 for the course "Family in the Social Life of Turkey". The curriculum of the course, which lasts 72 hours, consists of 4 sections: "Meaning of Family", "Being a Family", "History of Turkish Family", "Social Changes and Family".

Turkey's Education Ministry has banned the practice of "class mothers" (sınıf annesi), which aims to improve communication between teachers and parents but is often the subject of controversy. The ministry called for an end to the practice after complaints that class mothers collect fees from parents, demand money for teaching materials, interfere in lessons and record videos of students.

15 million 371 thousand tourists - that's how many tourists visited Antalya resorts in the past 11 months of 2023. This is an absolute record and surpasses the figures of 2019. By nationality, the most tourists came from Russia, followed by tourists from Germany, England and Poland.