A young trash collector pulls a trolley full of cardboards at Kadikoy neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A super moon rises behind Camlica mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, September 29, 2023. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)





Whirling dervish children practise as they wait to perform at the Blue Mosque Square in Istanbul, Turkey, 30 September 2023. About 750 whirling dervishes took part in the event in front of the Hagia Sophia Mosque, marking the 750th death anniversary of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar, who is buried in Turkey's central province of Konya, where he lived most of his life. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/EPA)





Members of Turkish Police Special Forces secure the area near the Interior Ministry following a bomb attack in Ankara, on October 1, 2023, leaving two police officers injured. The interior ministry said on October 1, 2023, that two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) “in front of the entrance gate of the General Directorate of Security of our Ministry of the Interior, and carried out a bomb attack”. (Photo by Adem Altan/AFP)





Turkish security forces cordon off an area after an explosion in Ankara, Sunday, October 1, 2023. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Sunday, hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen after a summer recess. A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police. (Photo by Ali Unal/AP Photo)





Workers make fish sandwiches in a popular restaurant in Eminonu district in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, October 2, 2023. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





A butterfly rests on a leaf at the Butterfly Garden in Konya, Turkiye on October 2, 2023. The Butterfly Garden provides a natural habitat for about 20 thousand butterflies of 40 different species and around 195 plant species from different tropical countries. The equatorial climate is maintained for four seasons with a constant temperature of 28 degrees celsius and 80 percent of humidity. (Photo by Serhat Cetinkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Hundreds of second-hand rugs are left out in the sun to dry after being washed and treated in Antalya, Turkey in October 2023. (Photo by F. Dilek Uyar/Solent News)





A lynx cub that followed a villager in the forest, is fed by a mother and her son for 2 days at the Koyulhisar district of Sivas, Turkiye on October 4, 2023. After 2 days, the lynx cub was taken under protection by the Sivas Department of Nature Conservation and National Parks teams. (Photo by Serhat Zafer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





This aerial photograph taken on October 5, 2023 in Antakya and released by Saype, shows a giant biodegradable landart painting located between damaged buildings by French-Swiss artist Guillaume Legros, known as Saype, from the Beyond Walls project in Hatay. The black-and-white fresco – two hands intertwined, his trademark – covers 1,000 m2, where until the night of February 6, 2023 stood four- to five-storey buildings with first floors occupied by a pastry shop, a tailor or a glazier. (Photo by LeSabe/Handout via AFP Photo)





People chant anti-Israel slogans while waving Palestinian flags during a rally celebrating the attacks that the militant Hamas group carried out against Israel, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, October 7, 2023. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)





Search and rescue Belgian Malinois dog “Maca” of Turkish Gendarmerie General Command takes part in skydiving training at Sivrihisar Aviation Center in Sivrihisar district of Eskisehir, Turkiye on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Cem Genco/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Search and rescue Belgian Malinois dog “Maca” of Turkish Gendarmerie General Command takes part in skydiving training at Sivrihisar Aviation Center in Sivrihisar district of Eskisehir, Turkiye on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Cem Genco/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Protesters chant slogans while holding Palestinian flags during a protest to show their solidarity with the Palestinians, in Istanbul, Turkey. Friday, October 13, 2023. Tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrated Friday across the Middle East in support of the Palestinians and against Israeli airstrikes pounding Gaza, underscoring the risk of a wider regional conflict erupting as Israel prepares for a possible ground invasion in the coastal strip. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)





Turkish National athlete Sahika Ercumen persists in her preparations for the dive along the shores of Karamagara Bay as she will dive to break the 105-meter world record in the variable weight category without fins on the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic in Hatay, Turkiye on October 15, 2023. The national athlete is determined to exceed the 105-meter world record currently held by Serbian diver Lena Balta in the variable weight category without fins. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A man holds a Palestinian flag as Turkish riot police use water cannon to disperse pro-Palestinian demonstrators during a protest, after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, near the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)





People clash with anti-riot policemen outside the Israeli consulate during a protest to show solidarity with Palestinians, in Istanbul early on October 18, 2023. Health officials in Gaza on October 17 said at least 200 people were killed in an air strike on a hospital compound which sheltered the wounded and displaced from Israeli bombing, prompting condemnation and fury in the Middle East and beyond. (Photo by Umit Turhan Coskun/AFP Photo)





People shout slogans during a protest to show solidarity with Palestinians outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, October 17, 2023. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





A man waves a Palestinian flag and others clash with anti riot policemen outside the Israeli consulate during a protest to show solidarity with Palestinians, in Istanbul, Turkey, early Wednesday, October 18, 2023. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Protesters chant slogans while burning a doll with a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a mock of an Israeli flag during a protest to show their solidarity with the Palestinians, in Istanbul, Turkey. Friday, October 20, 2023. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)