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Erdemli Municipality has announced the start of enrollment in sports classes for the new school year. Classes are available for children 7-15 years old in the following areas: soccer, volleyball, archery, tennis, wrestling, gymnastics, swimming, etc.

This was revealed by Izmir Mayor Tun Soyer in a video interview. Tun Soyer said that LGBT representatives can address their problems to the Equality and Justice Department recently established at the city municipality.

In May 2023, the Municipality of Mersin started the implementation of a logistics center project in Nakarli neighborhood of Akdeniz district. The project aims to meet the needs of freight forwarding companies. With the completion of the project, transportation and environmental problems in the city will be eliminated and logistics processes will be managed from a single center.

This year's harvest of white figs, which farmers harvest in Mut district of Mersin, amounted to about 30,000 tons. The farmers harvest figs on a plot of 8,000 hectares and sell them for 55 liras per kilogram. The white figs produced in this district are appreciated for their special color, aroma and taste. Mut district produces many fruits, including apricots, plums, olives and figs, and sells them both domestically and abroad. The estimated price of dried figs this year will be 250 liras per kilogram.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in New York to attend the 78th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, received Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ilon Musk at the Turkevi Center (Turkey's Consulate General and Mission building in Manhattan). The President invited Tesla to establish its seventh plant in Turkey.

The normative construction prices per square meter of buildings to be applied by the Ministry of Finance in 2024 have been officially announced. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization have determined the normative construction prices per square meter of buildings to be applied in 2024 as the basis for property tax. The 2024 construction prices are published in Official Gazette No. 31934.

The action, organized annually by Alanya Municipality on World Cleanliness Day, was held this year in Bycakci (Dim Dam Mevkii) microdistrict. As part of the event, garbage collected by dozens of people was collected in bags and thrown into waste collection containers.

According to the Global index, the top five countries with the highest divorce rate are Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, Russia and Ukraine. Turkey ranked 25th in this anti-rating with a 25% divorce rate.

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu announced that a transportation summit "ASECAP DAYS 2023" will be held in Istanbul on September 19-20 with the participation of members of the European Association of Toll Road and Infrastructure Operators ASECAP. The summit, organized for the first time in Turkey, will discuss issues related to highway operators and road transport. In addition, a number of sessions will be held to discuss the necessary changes in the sector. Serhat Sogukpınar, CEO of ICA (the first and only company accepted as a full member of ASECAP from Turkey) emphasized that ASECAP is a very important and valuable international platform bringing together private highway operators in Europe.

In the Turkish town of Amastris, where archaeological excavations are being carried out under the supervision of museum director Zubeide Kuru and curated by Bartın University, a statue of a nymph has been discovered at a depth of three meters. The Excavation and Research Department of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism said that the statue is dated to the 2nd century AD and its height is 153 centimeters.

The Toroslar Municipality of Mersin is holding the "European Movement Week" from September 16 to 22. The aim of the event is to increase the public's interest in practicing sports, walking, cycling and swimming. The program prepared during the week will include group hikes, morning sports activities, swimming competitions, bicycle rides and a bicycle race. On Friday, September 22, roads in the Chavushlu Mahallesi area will be closed to vehicular traffic as part of the "Car Free Day" campaign.

Stating that this project is a step towards environmental protection, Ekrem Imamoglu said that they intend to continue using buses that have run out of diesel engines by equipping them with electric engines. Thanks to the project, great savings will be achieved and vehicles that have reached the end of their useful life will be put back into service.