Haberler

Residents of 16 cities of Russia can book tours that will be carried out by flights of the airline South wind. The earliest flights to Antalya will start on March 5 from Moscow, Kazan and Kaliningrad. Flights will gradually be opened for residents of Ufa, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Surgut and Nizhnekamsk. Southwind is a Turkish airline, so the flight time will be standard due to the lack of need to fly around other countries.Flight conditions: luggage - 10 kg, hand luggage - 8 kg, fuel charge - 40 cu. in one direction.

While tour operators one by one announce the start of sales of tours to Turkey, the warmest resort city in the country is actively preparing for a new meeting with its guests. The Mayor of Alanya, Adem Murat Yudzhel, visited the central Iskele Street in the port area, where the old paving stones are currently being replaced with a new one. It is also planned to complete the improvement of 4.5 km of the Turkler-Payallar-Konakly embankment. The mayor said that all restoration, road and other works related to the preparation of the resort for the new season will be completed in March.

One of the most popular travel and tourism portals Tripadvisor has published a list of the best beaches in Europe. It also includes two of the best beaches in Turkey: Iztuzu Beach in Dalyan and Cleopatra Beach in Alanya.

In January 2023, exports to Turkey reached a historic highAccording to the Statistical Office of Turkey (TUIK), in January, exports in the country increased by 10% compared to the same period last year and amounted to a record $ 19.375 billion. Imports increased by 20.7% and amounted to $ 33.6 billion, with the most goods imported from Russia ($5 billion).Most of the Turkish goods were exported to Germany $ 1.8 billion, the United States $ 1.2 billion in second place and Russia $ 1 billion in third place.

In January 2023, the number of foreign tourists increased by 56.51% compared to 2022. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the number of tourists in January amounted to 2 million 5 thousand 967 people.

The General Directorate of Meteorology of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanism and Climate Change has published a report on the amount of precipitation that fell on the territory of Turkey in January 2023. According to the data, the amount of precipitation in Turkey decreased by 52% compared to normal levels and fell to the lowest level in the last 22 years. It is also reported that in January the largest amount of precipitation fell in Antalya province - 145 kg/m2, and the least amount of precipitation fell on Kars - 4.7 kg/m2.

The head of the oldest construction company "Ağaoğlu" Ali Aghaoglu spoke about the construction standards in the 60-80s, or rather about their absence: "Even when I was a child and my father was the head of the company, I saw what houses were being built from in Istanbul at that time. The main building material was concrete mixed with sea sand and shells. It was very difficult to get iron. To get at least one truck with iron, we had to wait for 6 months, and when we finally received it, it turned out to be of such poor quality that it broke at the slightest load. And this was the state of affairs for all companies. Therefore, 99% of the houses built in those years were built on this principle. I can say that the quality of such houses in Istanbul is much worse than those houses that were destroyed in the earthquake in Van.

Statistics on the number of marriages concluded, as well as on the number of their dissolution in Turkey, have been published. In Antalya province, 574,358 official marriages were registered, but in terms of the number of divorces, it was in third place - 180,954 registered divorces. Izmir and Mugla are in the first and second places, respectively.

According to the decision, which will come into force on March 5, 2023, citizens of Turkey and 18 other countries will be entitled to a multiple-entry 6-month visa when booking a hotel or other accommodation facility.

On the evening of February 20, two tremors of magnitude 5.8 and 6.4 were recorded in the Turkish province of Hatay. Earthquakes were also felt in Syria, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. 6 dead and 213 wounded are reported.The Ministry of Disaster and Emergency Management of Turkey AFAD has already reported that aftershocks after the main earthquake can last for several months, so residents and emergency services of risky regions were prepared for such a development of events, which allowed avoiding a large number of victims.

After the earthquake that occurred in Hatay the day before, the echoes of which touched Antalya and Alanya, the chairman of the Antalya branch of the Chamber of Geophysicists, Erman Kaptanoglu, made a statement regarding the concerns of residents of the Antalya coast.In his opinion, the Antalya region has always been prone to minor earthquakes, so one should not succumb to general panic.

"My house is your house" is the name of the project, the purpose of which is to provide housing for people affected by the earthquake. Owners who do not live in their apartments are invited to rent them to the victims. Utilities and insurance will be paid by the state. You can view the conditions and submit an application on the website https://evimyuvanolsun.org/