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Turkish people enjoy a sunny day near by the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey 22 August 2014.
A dancer performs on a watery stage suspended above the audience during the Fuerza Bruta (Brute Force) show in Istanbul, Turkey, 16 November 2016
A woman member of Sarikecili nomads looks to thier goats during their migrations from Karaman to Mersin for winter in rural of the Konya, Turkey, 25 September 2015
Participants throw up colored powder during the Color Up race in Istanbul, Turkey, 17 May 2015. The event is based on the Hindu Spring festival Holi, also known as the festival of colors where participants color each other with dry powder and colored water.
People walk under a gigantic rainbow flag as they participate in the 6th Istanbul LGTB Pride Parade in Istanbul, Turkey, 21 June 2015. Hundreds of transgender people and supporters marched in central Istanbul as part of the Trans Pride Week 2015, which is organized by Istanbul
A visitor looks at the Brazillian artist Joao Mode
A woman looks from a window of her house as supporters of Turkey
Turkish Muslims pray at the Suleymaniye Mosque on first day of the Eid-al-Adha in Istanbul, Turkey, 01 September 2017. Millions of Muslims around the world are preparing to celebrate the Eid al-Adha feast, or Kurban Bayrami in Turkey, when they will slaughter cattle, goats and sheep in commemoration of the Prophet Abraham
Whirling dervishes perform during the Mevlevi Sema Ceremony at Galata Mevlevihane cultural center in Istanbul, Turkey, 29 October 2017. The Sema is an old ritual combining whirling dervishes with music and poetry of Mevlana and chanting from Quran. The 13th-century poet Mevlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi is an illustrious personage of Sufism, the mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and love.
An aerial picture taken by a drone shows a car driving on a road leading through the Bozdag winter forests in Izmir, Turkey, 18 January 2018.
People dance around a huge fire during the Kakava festival in Edirne, Turkey, 05 May 2018. Kakava festival takes place to celebrate the arrival of spring by gypsies living in Turkey on 05 to 06 May each year. The fire is burned, danced around, skipped over. At the end of the day, wishes are written to a paper and left on the river.
A girl in chador sits next to a closed shop in Sanliurfa, Turkey, 20 June 2018. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on 18 April 2018 that Turkey will hold snap elections on 24 June 2018. The presidential and parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held in November 2019, but government has decided to change the date following the recommendation of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli.
Thousands of hand knotted Turkish carpets lay in fields owned by carpet companies at Dosemealti district in Antalya, Turkey, 10 August 2018. Workers put on fields almost 30,000 of carpets to soften their colors, to become more pastel under the sun in Antalya city. Carpet weaving tradition in Turkey has a long history dated back to ancient times.
Animal hospital in Turkey
An aerial photo taken by a drone shows, a charcoal worker during preparations for the handcrafted charcoal in Istanbul, Turkey, 24 May 2019 (Issued on 26 May 2019) According to reports, 250,000 tonnes of charcoal are consumed every year in Turkey. Each year in the northern forests of Istanbul, traditional charcoal production starts in the summer The peasants living in the region cut their oak trees and systematically line them up as a circle, Then they covered it with soil and set on fire for a week, it is expected to cool down in two days.
A photograph taken with a drone shows Syrian refugee seasonal workers cutting tomatoes to dry them in the sun in Izmir, Turkey, 01 August 2019. According to the Aegean Exporters Association, more than 60,000 tons of sun dried tomatoes from the Aegean coast in Turkey will be exported to Europe and the USA in 2019. The seasonal workers, most of whom are Syrian refugees, cut the tomatoes in half and are laid out on a white sheet on top of the soil. The fruits are then salted and left to dry under the sun for around a week, before being collected and brought to cold storage. The drying process is carried out entirely by natural means.
A vehicle transports cattle destined for sacrifice during Eid al-Adha celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, 11 August 2019. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy.
Assyrian Christians arrive at Mort Shmuni Church to attend the Christmas Mass in Mardin, Turkey, 25 December 2019. About 26,000 Assyrians live in Turkey.
Supermoon shines over Camlica mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, 09 March 2020.
People slaughter their sacrificial animal during the first day of the celebrations of the Eid-al-Adha holiday in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 July 2020. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy.
A shepherd and a sheep entering the Menderes River during the traditional sheep river-crossing competition in the village of Asagiseyit, near Denizli, Turkey, 25 August 2013. The centuries-old competition, part of the nomadic tradition, aims to measure the attentiveness of the animal to the herder.
An aerial photo made with a drone shows, a fisher man in a boat on the Marmara sea covered by sea snot in Istanbul, Turkey, 04 June 2021. Because of global heating, blanket of mucus-like substance in Marmara sea increasing day by day threatens fishing industry and the environment. According the media reports, sea snot, which is formed as a result of the proliferation of microalgae called phytoplankton in the sea, has descended 30 meters from the surface in some regions on the Marmara sea. The biggest reason for this is that the water temperature in the Marmara sea is 2.5 degrees above the average of the last 40 years.