A production team films a scene from a Turkish television drama with actors Paris Baktas and Yagmur Yuksel, in Istanbul, April 30, 2024. (Photo by Khalil Hamra/AP Photo)





A motorcyclist rides near the Matiate archaeological site underneath the town in Midyat in Mardin province, southeastern Turkey, on July 1, 2024. Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city “almost by chance” after an excavation of house cellars in the city of Midyat led to the discovery of a vast cave system in 2020. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)





A stray dog rests outside Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. A Turkish parliamentary commission on Wednesday began a tense debate on a bill designed to manage the country's large stray dog population which animal rights advocates fear could result in the widespread killing of the animals. (Phoot by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





An aerial view of a field where apricots are left to dry in the sun as seasonal workers process apricots after a harvest in Malatya, Turkiye on July 04, 2023. Harvested apricots are prepared and dried with sulphur or sun, depending on the buyer's requirements. (Photo by Bayram Ayhan/Anadolu/Abaca Press/Profimedia)





A two-meter-long black snake seen climbing a tree in Diyarbakir on July 10, 2024. Due to climate change and the fact that the air temperature has increased by 5 degrees from the seasonal normal, snakes have increased, especially in the eastern and southern cities of Turkey. Veterinarian Siyar Baran, who lives in the city of Diyarbakir and monitors snakes, stated that the 2-3 meter long black snakes, which are widely seen, are non-venomous and have many benefits to nature, and called for them not to be killed. (Photo by Mehmet Masum Suer/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A worker sorts peppers, zucchini, eggplants and other vegetables laid to dry under the sun in Gaziantep, Turkiye listed in UNESCO Creative Cities Network on July 10, 2024. Vegetables are laid to dry for one week after being cored. (Photo by Adsiz Gunebakan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A baby loggerhead (Caretta caretta) heads to the sea in Manavgat, on July 14, 2024. The 10-kilometre coastline, located east of the tourism capital of Antalya, is a major breeding area for the globally endangered loggerheads also known as caretta carettas on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) red list of threatened species. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/AFP Photo)





Beekeepers check the fullness of the frames in the bee hives with a great effort in Tatvan district of Bitlis, Turkiye on July 16, 2024. The harvest period, which started at the end of the spring season with the warming of the weather, gains momentum during the summer. (Photo by Mustafa Kilic/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A full moon rises behind Galata Tower landmark in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, July 21, 2024. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Tourists visit the illuminated ancient Greek city of Ephesus at night near Selcuk on July 23, 2024. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/AFP Photo)





Children enjoy water sprays at Kartal Beach Park during hot days of summer season in Istanbul, Turkiye on July 18, 2024. (Photo by Murat Bakmaz/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Firefighters try to extinguish the forest fire, broke out close to residential areas at Cesmealti town in Urla district of Izmir, Turkiye on July 31, 2024. 4 airplanes, 12 helicopters, 36 land vehicles, 10 water supply vehicles, 4 dozers and 8 ground teams belonging to Turkish General Directorate of Forestry continued their efforts to bring the fire under control. (Photo by Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An aerial view of a man going fishing on a wooden boat over Golbasi Lake, located on Hatay's Kirikhan district, Turkiye on July 31, 2024. Known as the source of Lake Amik, which was dried up in the 1960s, the lake has a different appearance with the increasing number of water hyacinths, especially in summer with its rich flora and fauna. (Photo by Ahmet Aslan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





The fairy chimneys are seen with light illuminations created with different techniques in Cappadocia, Nevsehir, Turkiye on August 01, 2024. Fairy chimneys are formed by volcanic eruptions and erosions over millions of years and are considered as one of the unique characteristics of the geography. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This handout photograph by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service released on August 2, 2024, shows the launching ceremony of the Ada class corvette “Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi” in Istanbul on August 1, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This vessel was constructed for the Ukrainian Navy at a shipyard in Turkey. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via AFP Photo)





At the “Cappadocia Balloon and Culture Road Festival” organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 35 balloons with different figures brought from 17 countries colored the sky on August 8, 2024 in Nevsehir, Türkiye. (Photo by Ugur Yildirim/ diaimages via Getty Images)





Pigeons try to cool themselves off near a pond at Segmenler Park in Ankara, Turkiye on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Ercin Erturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)





People watch the sunset as they gather at the archaeological site of massive stone head sculptures on Mount Nemrut in Ad?yaman, southeastern Turkey, on August 11, 2024, the night of the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseid meteor shower took place on the night between August 10-11, above the 2,134-meter-density mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, which features giant 10-meter statues of King Antiochus I, surrounded by ancient gods, including Zeus and Apollo, discovered by a German engineer in 1881. (Photo by Kemal Aslan/AFP Photo)





Ancient statues are seen during the Perseid meteor shower atop Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey, Sunday, August 11, 2024. Perched at an altitude of 2,150 meters (over 7,000 feet), the statues are part of a temple and tomb complex that King Antiochus I, of the ancient Commagene kingdom, built as a monument to himself. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)





Turkey's ruling AK Party lawmakers display placards as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (not pictured) addresses the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Cagla Gurdogan/Reuters)