Members of emergency services work around a passenger plane that skidded off the runway at the Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul, Tuesday, January 7, 2020, temporarily shutting down the airport. The Boeing 737-800 from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, operated by Turkish low-cost airline Pegasus, skidded as it landed in the morning and Istanbul governor's office said all 164 passengers were safely evacuated by emergency slides Storms and heavy rain have affected the city and transportation since Sunday night. (Photo by IHA via AP Photo)





A boy tries to go against flow as he goes for fishing on the Tigris river with the abandoned old city of Hasankeyf in background on December 17, 2019. Despite years of protests by residents and activists, the small village on the banks of the Tigris River will soon be under water as part of a controversial dam project. Authorities have started to move some historic monuments, and have already destroyed others. Old city has been abandoned, government cut electricity and water, the historic market, has been destroyed and disappear during last days. Residents are being moved from the ancient town to a “New Hasankeyf” nearby, while historic artefacts have also been transported out of the area. (Photo by Bülent Kılıç/AFP Photo)





Stockbreeders carry fodder by sleds to feed their animals in a snow covered village on a freezing winter day in Mus province of Turkey on January 17, 2020. (Photo by Yahya Sezgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A stockbreeder feeds his animal on snow covered path at Ovacik district of Tunceli, Turkey on January 8, 2020. (Photo by Sidar Can Eren/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A military helicopter is seen as Turkish soldiers conduct a military operation to combat PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, and Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey regards as a terror group, during cold weather, below minus 20 degrees Celsius, at winter season, in Calyan tableland of Van, Turkey on January 16, 2020. 14 teams of 200 people consisting of commando and gendarmerie special operations participated in the operation. The soldiers were transported to the operation area with helicopters. This operation aims to decipher the activities of the terrorist organizations in the region. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Search and rescue works are conducted at site to find a construction equipment and a van, which have been buried under avalanche with passengers, at Van-Bahcesaray highway in Van, Turkey on February 4, 2020. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Emergency service members work in the snow around overturned vehicles, near the town of Bahcesaray, Van province, eastern Turkey, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in the province, which borders Iran, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find two people missing in an earlier avalanche. (Photo by Yilmaz Sonmez/IHA via AP Photo)





Shepherd brothers Mustafa Erbay and Baran Erbay train their camels on snowy grounds, enabling them to become champions in competitions held in the Aegean and Mediterranean regions in Baskale district of Van, Turkey on February 1, 2020. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A shepherd graze of sheep herd in front of the Zeynel Bey Shrine (1473) which is carried to new Hasankeyf settlement from the old town after the hydro electric power plant project in Batman, Turkey, 25 December 2019. Turkey's second-largest hydroelectric dam project is being filled with the Tigris River despite protests. A 300-square-kilometer lake will be spawn by the 1820-meter long, 135-meter high Ilisu dam when the project is completed. therefore a new settlement was built three kilometres away because the historic town of Hasankeyf will be almost completely inundated. People were relocated there over the course of the end 2019. Also some historical monuments such as Er Rizk Mosque, Zeynel Bey Shrine and a castle gate were moved to the new settlement in this process. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/EPA/EFE)





A man looks through a window of a house covered in snow, in Turkey's eastern Mus province on February 04, 2020. Heavy snow in Mus affect life in rural areas negatively. (Photo by Ibrahim Yaldiz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Water buffalos bathe in a thermal spring that is around 40 degrees Celsius in Budakli village at Guroymak district, Bitlis, Turkey on February 3, 2020. Despite the freezing cold, villagers bring their horses and water buffalos to thermal springs to wash and care them. (Photo by Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People stroll at Taksim square during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Istanbul, Turkey, December 31, 2019. (Photo by Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters)





A man grieves during a funeral for earthquake victims in Elazig, Turkey, January 26, 2020. The magnitude 6.8 quake caused 41 deaths and injured more than 1,600 others. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





A security personnel in tactical gear gestures near the Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-86J plane, that overran the runway during landing and crashed, at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport, February 5, 2020. The plane carrying 171 passengers from the Aegean port city of Izmir split into three after landing in rough weather. Officials said no-one had lost their lives in the accident, but dozens of people were injured. (Photo by Murad Sezer/Reuters)





Tents setup by the government for survivors following a strong earthquake that destroyed several buildings on Friday, in Elazig, eastern Turkey, Sunday, January 26, 2020, as rescue workers continue to find people trapped under the debris. Working against the clock in freezing temperatures, Turkish rescue teams pulled more survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the country's east. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Swimmers pull a Greek Orthodox faithful who lost consciousness out of the water as he swam with others to retrieve a wooden crucifix during the Epiphany ceremony in Istanbul, Monday, January 6, 2020. Media were told the man is alive and recovering at a hospital. More than a dozen Orthodox men raced to retrieve the cross which was thrown into the waters by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)





Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) makes a speech during the Annual Evaluation Meeting for 2019 at the Bestepe National Congress and Culture Center in Ankara on January 16, 2020. (Photo by Adem Altan/AFP Photo)





A boy sleds through snow as he enjoys the snow in Bahcesaray district called as planet nine because of roads blocked by snow in winter, in Van province of Turkey on January 22, 2020. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A stockbreeder carries a goat on his back at a countryside following snowfall during winter season in Van, Turkey on January 27, 2020. The life of stockbreeders, who are dealing with livestock, become difficult after the snowfall. (Photo by Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Two camels fight during the Selcuk-Efes Camel Wrestling Festival in the town of Selcuk, near the western coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, 19 January 2020. The event, which celebrated its 38th anniversary, brings together two camel bulls with a female camel on heat nearby. The camels fight it out for the female by leaning on each other to push the other onr down. Camel Wrestling is most common in the Aegean region of Turkey but can also been found in the Marmara and Mediterranean regions of the country. (Photo by Erdem Sahin/EPA/EFE)