Camels fight in the Pamucak Arena during the annual 43rd Efes Selcuk Camel Wrestling Festival in the Aegean town of Selcuk, near Izmir, Turkey, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





The protected brown bears “Efe“ and “Ege”, who are brothers, feed in an outdoor area where they usually spend the summer months in Konya, Turkiye on January 23, 2025. Ege and Efe, who stay indoors in an area resembling a cave during the winter, couldn't hibernate this winter season due to the high seasonal temperatures caused by global warming. (Photo by Serhat Cetinkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a hotel at a ski resort of Kartalkaya in Bolu province, in northwest Turkey, Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Photo by IHA via AP Photo)





Firefighters are seen in action at a fire site in Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Bolu, Türkiye, January 21, 2025. The death toll from the devastating fire at Türkiye's Kartalkaya ski resort in northwestern Bolu province has risen to 76, and nine people have been detained in connection with the incident, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Tuesday. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Tightened bed sheets hang from a window of a hotel where a fire broke out at the Kartalkaya ski resort in Bolu province, northwest Turkey, on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. (Phoot by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





The Imperial Russian Ballet Company performs Tchaikovsky's classic work “Swan Lake” at ATO Congresium in Ankara, Turkiye on January 24, 2025. The show, which took place at ATO Congresium, attracted great interest from art lovers. Before the show, the team to take the stage wore their elaborate costumes and made their make-up. (Photo by Didem Mente/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the Appointment Ceremony of Judges and Public Prosecutors at Bestepe National Congress and Culture Center in Ankara, Turkiye on January 30, 2025. (Photo by TUR Presidency/Mustafa Kamaci/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A view of the elevated tank, covered with icicles formed by the freezing of water flowing from bursted pipes due to extreme cold, in Gevas district of Van, Turkiye on January 30, 2025. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Turkish police officers block supporters of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (not pictured) as they gather in front of the Istanbul Courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 January 2025. Imamoglu is set to testify in court as part of a new investigation launched against him for 'attempting to influence judicial proceedings' following his comments on probes involving CHP-run municipalities earlier in January, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said. (Photo by Erdem Şahin/EPA/EFE)





Bulgarian border police officers play with a dog as they patrol along the the Bulgaria-Turkey border near the village of Kapitan Andreevo on February 3, 2025, during a joint contingent of border police officers from Bulgaria, Austria, Romania and Hungary to guard the Turkish border. (Photo by Nikolay Doychinov/AFP Photo)





Turkish Armed Forces personnel attend the distinguished observer day activities of the Winter Exercise-2025, organized by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in Kars, Turkiye, on February 05, 2025. The exercise features mortar fire drills, search and rescue operations, joint operation coordination, testing combat capabilities of units, fire synchronization, maneuvering, and training on essential areas such as equipment and support. 12,199 personnel participated in the exercise. (Photo by Hilmi Tunahan Karakaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Pilots are seen in the cockpit of the general purpose helicopter Gokbey, produced with local and national resources, with its wide range of possibilities and capabilities in the most challenging missions, in the Turkish capital Ankara on February 10, 2025. Developed to meet the needs of the Turkish Gendarmerie General Command, Gokbey has the opportunity and ability to operate effectively in the most difficult climatic conditions, at high altitude and temperature, day and night. The Gokbey, which can successfully perform tasks such as VIP, cargo, air ambulance, search and rescue and offshore transportation, is in a superior position than its competitors in its class with its features and technology. (Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A view of the snow covered Maden village, which is famous for traditional wooden houses in Savsat district of Artvin, Turkiye on February 10, 2025. Although the roads reaching the village are open in the region where the winter season is harsh, the houses are reached on foot. Citizens living in the region, where the snow thickness exceeds 2 metres in places, make their living by agriculture and animal husbandry. (Photo by Umut Can Karahasanoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A balloon seller walks at the historical Sur district in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on February 14, 2025. A frustrated father mourns his son who was abducted and murdered by PKK militants, as a mother weeps for her teenage daughter, killed by a Turkish sniper during clashes in 2016. Both live in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, where tens of thousands of lives have been lost and families shattered in four decades of bloody violence between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). (Photo by Ilyas Akengin/AFP Photo)





A general view of the snow covered Ishak Pasha Palace, one of the most important monuments built by the Ottomans in Anatolia, after snowfall in Agri, Turkiye on February 15, 2025. Snow covered palace and its surroundings, along with its historical structure and natural beauties in the region, attract attention in the winter season. (Photo by Abdullah Soylemez/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Ayhan Savut, the grandson of Mustafa Efendi, one of the famous Ottoman finial masters, continues his work in his finial workshop making finials in Bursa, Turkiye on February 19, 2025. Savut, a descendant of the renowned coppersmith Mustafa Efendi, one of the most famous finial masters of the Ottoman period, produces finials that adorn the domes and minarets of mosques not only in Turkiye but also in many other countries. Savut, who is the third generation of his family to carry on the business in Bursa, has been making finials for 57 years. Savut's finials are exported to many countries, from Ghana to the Ivory Coast. (Photo by Mustafa Kilic/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A tram runs under the falling snow along Istiklal Avenue, in Istanbul on February 19, 2025. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)





Backdropped by the New mosque, a woman walks on the Galata Bridge after a snowfall in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, February 21, 2025. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Fatih Municipality teams clean the Suleymaniye Mosque as part of the disinfection work carried out before Ramadan in historical mosques in Istanbul, Turkiye on February 25, 2025. (Photo by Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images)





The company selling wedding dresses with designs made of local and wild grass, exhibited its new collection with local and foreign models consisting of Mesopotamian motifs by organizing a fashion show at Dara Ancient City in Mardin, Turkiye on February 26, 2025. (Photo by Halil Ibrahim Sincar/Anadolu via Getty Images)