The company selling wedding dresses with designs made of local and wild grass, exhibited its new collection with local and foreign models consisting of Mesopotamian motifs by organizing a fashion show at Dara Ancient City in Mardin, Turkiye on February 26, 2025. (Photo by Halil Ibrahim Sincar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Wrestlers compete in the 63rd Historical Cali Oil Wrestling Tournament, held on June 29, 2025, in Bursa, Turkiye. The event, which featured over 800 wrestlers and served as the final rehearsal for the 664th Historical Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival, is on track to become a stage of the Oil Wrestling League, now in its third season. (Photo by Mustafa Yilmaz/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A shepherd and his flock in the Bitlis province of eastern Turkey in the first decade of April 2024. Shepherds regularly embark on gruelling journeys through the dusty outback, as they take their sheep to the high plateaus needed for grazing and then back to villages for milking. (Photo by Kahraman Kaya/Solent News)

Shi'ite Muslim girls take part in a mourning procession to mark Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 16, 2024. (Photo by Dilara Senkaya/Reuters)

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)

A plane drops water to put out the fire broke out yesterday in a grassy area in Kizilcahamam district of Ankara and spread to a forest area in Gerede district of Bolu as firefighters, Turkish General Directorate of Forestry teams and officers continue their extinguishing and cooling efforts in the forest fire that is under control on August 22, 2024 in Bolu, Turkiye. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Women take photos on Lake Salt, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, during the sunset in Ankara, Turkiye on July 3, 2023. Lake Salt, which is one of the important wetlands of Turkiye and is of great importance for the protection of biological diversity in our country, also attracts the attention of visitors. (Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A grizzly bear waves its paw at a vehicle on the road to Nemrut Crater Lake in Tatvan district of Bitlis, Turkiye on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)