Turkey's natural aquifers draw in Russian guests

Natural aquifers in northwestern Turkey are drawing in Russian vacationers searching for an approach to mend different medical issues.


Within the Pamukkale Hierapolis complex is Cleopatra’s Pool (hot springs sometimes called the Pamukkale Antique Pool). The hot springs, with its mineral rich waters are said to be good for illnesses such as skin diseases, circulation problems, rheumatism, heart diseases and many other ailments and people flocked here to find relief for their diseases.

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Holidaymakers, particularly the individuals who experience the ill effects of rheumatic torment, skin and metabolic infections, favor Yalova region to appreciate the underground aquifers.

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"Russian visitors show incredible enthusiasm for our offices. We watched 20 percent - 25 percent expansion [in 2019] in the quantity of Russian guests when contrasted with the earlier year, Ümit Gürbüzoğlu, agent chief of Thermal Hot Springs Enterprise of Turkey's Health Ministry, revealed to Anadolu Agency.

Featuring 3,500 Russian guests were suited in 2019, Gürbüzoğlu said 2,500 guests originate from Middle Eastern nations.

"Underground aquifer the travel industry is well known, particularly throughout the winter," he stated, including that swimming in the outside pool while snowing is a delight.

Expecting to expand the quantity of guests in 2020, he said Russian travel guides who making the most of their excursion in Yalova, have exhorted others to visit.

Russian vacationer Valeriya Dobrotina said she found out about the office through internet based life.

"My companions, who previously visited there, prompted me to visit. I truly preferred the spot. I need to visit there once again," she included.

Kristina Basinskaya, another Russian, said she profits by the warm water.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reached


The loss of life from an incredible quake in eastern Turkey arrived at 22 on Jan. 25, as rescuers scanned for survivors caught under the rubble of crumbled structures.


The extent 6.8 tremor late on Jan. 24 shook Elazığ region, around 550 km (340 miles) east of the capital Ankara, and was trailed by in excess of 390 delayed repercussions, 14 of which had sizes more than 4.

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Eighteen individuals were slaughtered in Elazığ and four more in the neighboring territory of Malatya, said Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Presidency (AFAD), including 1,103 others were harmed and in medical clinics in the district. It said salvage endeavors were in progress at three distinct destinations in Elazığ.

Turkish telecasters demonstrated film of rescuers hauling individuals out from under the flotsam and jetsam, some around 17 hours after the shake.

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Talking in Elazığ, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said an expected 22 individuals were as yet caught under garbage. AFAD later said 40 individuals had been protected up until this point.

A lady was protected on Jan. 25 from the rubble of a fallen house 17 hours after the tremor.


The live communicate of salvage endeavors indicated that a female salvage laborer was talking via telephone with the caught lady, distinguished as Azize, in an offer to quiet her during the salvage activity.

Salvage groups worked during that time with their hands, drills and mechanical diggers to expel blocks and mortar from crumbled structures in Elazığ, where the medium-term temperature plunged to - 8 degrees Celsius.

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AFAD cautioned occupants not to come back to harmed structures on account of the risk of further post-quake tremors. It said beds, covers, and tents were being sent to the zone, where a few people protected in sports gyms. Turkey's Red Crescent (Kızılay) additionally sent nourishment, radiators and different materials to the district.

"I wish God's benevolence to our siblings who lost their lives in the tremor, and earnest recuperating for the individuals who were harmed," Erdoğan said on Twitter on Jan. 24.

Condition and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum, who talked nearby Soylu on Jan. 25, said five structures in Elazığ had fell in the shake and there were a few vigorously harmed structures.

Turkey has a background marked by incredible quakes. In excess of 17,000 individuals were murdered in August 1999 when a 7.6 size shake struck the western city of Izmit, 90 km (55 miles) southeast of Istanbul. Around 500,000 individuals were made destitute.

Key realities about the fatal quake:


The shake: A greatness 6.8 seismic tremor struck at 8.55 p.m. neighborhood time on Jan. at a profundity of 6.75 kilometers (around 4 miles).

Where: The focal point was Sivrice region of eastern Elazığ region.

Passings and wounds: 22 individuals have been affirmed dead and in excess of 1,100 harmed.

Salvage endeavors: Some 40 individuals have been protected at this point endeavors are in progress.

Delayed repercussions: Authorities said somewhere in the range of 228 consequential convulsions were felt.

Turkey deliveryman dangers 18 years in prison for spitting on pizza


A Turkish examiner has required a sentence of as long as 18 years for a deliveryman who was found spitting on a client's pizza before giving it over to the client in the Central Anatolian territory of Eskişehir.


The case was opened after a high rise proprietor viewing the surveillance camera film saw the occurrence on Dec. 24, 2017. The proprietor alarmed the client, who was an inhabitant of a similar structure.

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The recording indicated the deliveryman, recognized as Burak S., spitting on the pizza and recording the minute on his cell phone.

The respondent has just been fined 4,000 Turkish Liras ($675) for imperiling a client's wellbeing. Investigators are presently looking for jail sentences from two years to 15 years for "imperiling life by harming nourishment," and from four months to three years for property harm.

The meeting was shut after the respondent's attorneys requested additional opportunity to set up a supplication.

Ottoman newspapers on the walls of Dolmabahçe palace


Paper parts from 1917 were found inside the divider mortar during a rebuilding work at the Dolmabahçe Palace's Süfera Salonu (the Ambassador's Hall) in Istanbul on Jan. 23.

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The papers were utilized as filling materials during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Reşad in 1909-1918.

The neat pieces of the paper pages recount anecdotes about the Ottoman Empire's initial two planes, and that the last made a trip from Beirut to Damascus securely.

While the printing date of the Ottoman paper is evaluated to match with the mid 1910s, a French day by day part peruses the date 1917.

During the reclamation works in one of the corridors of the royal residence, a sketch of a male representation was likewise found behind the layers of paint on the divider.

The representation, which seems to have been drawn with oil paints, is believed to be a keepsake left by the castle etchers.

"The craftsmans who made the adornment work of that period utilized the dividers like a composition palette," said Cem Eriş, the leader of the reclamation branch of the National Palaces.

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As indicated by the subtleties identified with the reclamation at the hour of Sultan Mehmed Reşad, it is comprehended that the male representation, which was found under the layers of paint on the divider in the rooms 30 and 32, was drawn with oil paint, and the sketch-formed picture is thought to have been made by the castle calligraphers.

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Moreover, it was uncovered that the paper pieces were utilized as filling materials. It is written in the paper pieces, containing Ottoman and French news, that the "Footstool" and "Ruler Celaleddin" planes, the primary planes of the Ottoman Empire, effectively completed 40-minute flights.

"Our reclamation works have been proceeding at the Dolmabahçe Palace Süfera Hall for over a year. Before we began the rebuilding work in the room where the diplomats were gotten, we made examinations. Similar works are going on along these lines in room 32. During the reclamation and protection process, we experienced intriguing things. An image of a male figure showed up under the paint layers. The craftsmans, who made the embellishment works, of that period utilized the divider like an artistic creation palette. There are other various drawings, tree pictures and scrawls. One of the calligraphers made a trial by drawing a human figure. He left us such a shock under the paint layer, when we arrived, our companions halted the work," he said.

Eriş said that they took the human figures under security.


"The National Palaces Administrative Directorate has a Science Evaluation Board. They will settle on a choice when we present the figure we found to the board. We will choose how it will be secured and how our functions will keep, as indicated by the choice of the board. Here we see the Ottoman male picture with a facial hair, mustache and turban, which obviously makes an alternate intrigue," he included.

Expressing that the filling material comprised of the cases of electrical materials utilized around then, Eriş stated, "In the paper sections, we saw news about Siyer-I Nebi and the accomplishment of the initial 40-minute excursion of Ottoman and Prince Celalettin planes from Beirut to Damascus. This is an occasion that occurred during the 1910s or soon after. In French writings, there is the ad of a performance center play, which is from 1917. These are the papers left from the work completed somewhere in the range of 1910 and 1917. We will probably open the spot to guests this year."