A priest celebrates the Easter mass at the Armenian church Surp Giragos, in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on April 9, 2023. For the first time in eight years, Armenians were able to gather in their church in Diyarbakir on April 9, 2023, after the building was badly damaged in clashes between the Turkish army and the PKK in 2015-16. (Photo by Seyfettin Guncel/AFP Photo)





A pet rabbit “Mocca” is seen among flowers with the arrival of spring in Turkish capital Ankara on April 11, 2023. (Photo by Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Worshippers hold candles as they attend Mass at the Church of St. George on the island of Gokceada, Turkey, known as Imvros in Greek, Saturday, April 15, 2023. The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, based in Istanbul, fulfilled a 10-year promise to mark Easter on the Turkish island where he was born. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)





Metal sculpture artist and mosaic master Mervan Altinorak works on a metal sculpture in his workshop in Reyhanli district of Hatay, Turkiye on April 20, 2023. Altinorak collected 15 thousand metal scraps from vehicle pieces, kitchen tools and various other equipment to work on the ordered sculpture. (Photo by Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Istanbul, Turkey on April 21, 2023. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)





Underwater Director of Photography Tahsin Ceylan and his team help 14 year-old girl Inci Inci, who survived the earthquakes in Hatay, to dive to celebrate the 23rd April National Sovereignty and Children's Day under water in Kemer district of Antalya, Turkiye on April 21, 2023. (Photo by Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





An Australian soldier plays the pipes next to a Turkish flag in a pole at half staff during a ceremony to commemorate at the Lone Pine following the Dawn Service ceremony at the Anzac Cove beach, the site of World War I landing of the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on April 25, 1915, in Gallipoli peninsula, near Canakkale, Turkey, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Hundreds of people gathered by a beach near the former World War I battlefields on Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula on Tuesday to pay homage to soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who lost their lives in a disastrous campaign 108 years ago. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A man is detained by police officers as protesters demonstrate against the detention of 110 people over alleged militant ties, as per the security sources, in Diyarbakir, Turkey on April 25, 2023. (Photo by Sertac Kayar/Reuters)





A worker removes a giant banner with the image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, at the end of a rally by Istanbul Mayor and main opposition CHP party member Ekrem Imamoglu, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, CHP, speaks at a campaign rally in Tekirdag, Turkey, on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Kilicdaroglu, the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the May 14 election, cuts a starkly different figure than the incumbent who has led the country for two decades. As the polarizing Erdogan has grown increasingly authoritarian, Kilicdaroglu has a reputation as a bridge builder and vows to restore democracy. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan take part in a rally ahead of the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections, in Ankara, Turkey on April 30, 2023. (Photo by Presidential Press Office/Handout via Reuters)





An aerial view of the people visiting the stands during the fourth day of the Turkiyeâs largest technology and aviation event TEKNOFEST at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 30, 2023. (Photo by Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Police officers detain a demonstrator as people protest to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day in Istanbul, Turkey on May 1, 2023. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/Reuters)





A man is detained as he marches with other union members during Labor day in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, May 1, 2023. As in previous years, police in Turkey prevented a group of demonstrators from reaching Istanbul's main square Taksim, and detained around a dozen protesters. Journalists trying to film demonstrators being forcibly moved into police vans, were also pushed back or detained. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Police officers detain a demonstrator as people protest to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day in Istanbul, Turkey on May 1, 2023. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/Reuters)





Trade union members shout slogans during Labor day celebrations at Taksim square in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, May 1, 2023. As in previous years, police in Turkey prevented a group of demonstrators from reaching Istanbul's main square Taksim, and detained around a dozen protesters. Meanwhile, small groups were allowed to enter Taksim to lay wreaths at a monument there. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





Police officers detain a demonstrator as people protest to defy a ban and march on Taksim Square to celebrate May Day in Istanbul, Turkey on May 1, 2023. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)





Bears, waking up from hibernation, are seen at the Ovakorusu Celal Acar Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in the Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye on May 02, 2023. 71 brown bears, 63 of them adult, brought from different regions of Turkiye and unable to live in nature live in the this center on an area of ââ10 hectares, which was opened in 1996 as part of the “Freedom for the Bears Project” under the 2nd Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Feeding and special care programs are applied to bears waking up from hibernation. (Photo by Sergen Sezgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Moon appears over TCG Anadolu, Turkiye's largest warship and the world's first unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) carrier and Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, Turkiye on May 02, 2023. (Photo by Isa Terli/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





The fox cub found by workers during the road construction work and delivered to the personnel of the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks of Turkiye is seen in Osmaniye, Turkiye on May 03, 2023. (Photo by Muzaffer Cagliyaner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)