Baskent University Cartoon and Animation Department student Ali Efe Arslan poses for a photo as he spotted strolling through the streets of Turkish capital three days a week, donned in the iconic costume of Batman, his beloved comic book hero in Ankara, Turkiye on January 30, 2024. University student Arslan expressed his lifelong fascination with the superhero Batman, revealing that his pursuit of studies in cartoons and animation was driven by this passion. Arslan noted that onlookers were consistently taken aback, expressing surprise, and many were eager to capture the moment with photos. He expressed his delight at the positive reception and interest he received from those who encountered him in his distinctive attire in the streets of Turkish capital, Ankara. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Vehicle are scattered during floods after heavy rains in Antalya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. (Photo by Dia Images via AP Photo)





Vehicles are stranded during floods after heavy rains in Antalya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, February 13, 2024. (Photo by Dia Images via AP Photo)





A child is seen jumping into the hot spring water as young people bathe buffaloes and horses fed in the barn during the winter at Budakli village in Guroymak district of Bitlis, Turkiye on February 13, 2024. (Photo by Sener Toktas /Anadolu via Getty Images)





Commuters take a ride in a ferry crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, February 20, 2024. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





Athletes participating in the “Snow Rugby Championship”, which was held for the first time in the country, pose for a photo in Davraz Ski Center of Isparta, Turkiye on February 24, 2024. (Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A full moon rises behind the Camlica mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, February 24, 2024. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Stork “Yaren” perches on fisherman Adem Yilmaz's boat in Eskikaraagac 'Stork' Village of Bursa, Turkey on February 29, 2024. The stork, named Yaren landed on fisherman Adem Yilmaz' boat while he was sailing on Uluabat Lake 13 years ago and their friendship continues since then. Yilmaz said that even though the stork goes away for six months each year, when she gets back she finds him immediately and the friendship picks up right where it left off. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A view of 4-year-old cat, named Siraz, trying to get rid of its excess weight by doing pilates and swimming in the pool as it obese due to irregular nutrition and inactivity in Ankara, Turkiye on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Baboon cub “Lemon” turns 9 weeks old with incubation care after his mother rejected him at Tarsus Nature Park in Mersin, Turkiye on March 03, 2024. (Photo by Mustafa Unal Uysal/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Sevilay Cakir, an English teacher in Ankara's Pursaklar district, who started traditional horse archery, is viewed with her husband Davut, in Ankara, Turkiye on March 03, 2024. Sevilay Cakir, who started traditional horse archery about 10 years ago with the support of her husband, broke the Turkish record for women by scoring 40.75 points on the table3 course in the races in Aksehir last year. Cakir, mother of 2 children, wants to be one of the women representing her country abroad by entering the top 15 in Turkiye with her horse Akduman. (Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Mahya masters work in the installation of a lights message at the top of one of the minarets of the Suleymaniye mosque ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Mahya is the unique Turkish tradition of stringing religious messages and designs between minarets. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A demonstrator poses before the police barriers near Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)





A woman walks near one of the ancient statues of the tomb of King Antiochus after snow fall atop Mount Nemrut, near Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, Saturday, March 9, 2024. The statues are part of a temple and tomb complex that King Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 B.C.) built as a monument to himself. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Turkish soldiers, with the Ayasofya-i Kebir Camii or Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in the background, fire a cannon to mark the end of fasting during the holy month of Ramadan at Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey,on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





A view of the Moon over the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkiye on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Isa Terli/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A model dressed in clothes made of waste products such as plastic bags, plaster nets, rope, paper and calendar leaves poses for a photo at a recycling facility in Diyarbakir, Turkiye on March 25, 2024. (Photo by Bestami Bodruk/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Turkish President and leader of Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses to crowd during his party's election rally prior for the municipal elections in Diyarbakir, Turkiye on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Murat Kula/Anadolu via Getty Images)





The “Sema-Semah-Devran” event, which was prepared to keep the tradition of Sufism alive, is performed at Ataturk Cultural Center (AKM) in Istanbul, Turkiye on March 28, 2024. (Photo by Hakan Akgun/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Republican People's Party, or CHP, supporters gather to celebrate outside City Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey's main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in Sunday's local elections, preliminary results showed, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)