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	Mersin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mersin is the capital city of Mersin province in Turkey (named İçel province until 2002).
		Mersin International Music Festival was established in 2001, and it is one of the major cultural events of the province.
		68% of the population was born in Mersin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mersin (1095 words)

	Mediterranean Region, Turkey
		The provinces of Hatay, Adana, Icel, Antalya, Isparta, Burdur and a large portion of Kahramanmaras are in the Mediterranean Region.
		Isparta Province, at the center of the Goller Region, is known for its beautiful rose gardens, attar of roses and its world-famous carpets.
		Mersin is one of the most modern cities in the Mediterranean Region, with palm tree lined coastal boulevards, charming parks, beautiful hotels, commercial buildings and a free trade zone.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/sights/mediterranean.htm (1087 words)

	Ramadan drum-beating is breach of human rights, Turkish province declares (eye roll)
		ANKARA (AFP) - The administration of a Turkish province has declared that a centuries-old tradition of pre-dawn drum-beating to wake Muslims up during the holy month of Ramadan is a breach of human rights and should be abandoned.
		The Human Rights Board at the office of the governor of the southern Mersin province -- comprised of the governor, other senior local officials and civic groups -- said that drum-beating in the early hours of the day was disturbing for children as well as sick and working people.
		The province's top Muslim cleric has lent support to the move, saying that drum-beating is not a condition set by Islam, the Radikal daily reported.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1272880/posts (573 words)

	Search: Mersin - FOX News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mersin is one of the most modern provinces of the palmlined avenues, city park an...
		Mersin Üniversitesi, sizi, bilgiyi üretebilen, yarat c, rekabete aç k ve modern dünyan n gerektirdi i donan mlara sahip bireyler olarak yeti tirmek için gerekli tüm niteliklere sahiptir.
		Mersin is one of the most modern provinces of the palm lined avenues, city park and m...
	search.foxnews.com /_1_T1NTEF04KJOHHP__info.foxnws/search/web/Mersin (604 words)

	Suspected Kurdish rebel bomber, four helpers detained in Turkey
		Mersin, located on Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast, is home to a large community of immigrants from the mainly Kurdish southeast.
		A little known Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, which police say is a cover for PKK attacks on civilians, claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the Aegean resort of Cesme on July 10, which left 20 people injured, and threatened more attacks on tourist targets.
		In the most recent incident, a bomb blast blamed on the PKK killed five soldiers in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Friday, prompting a pledge by the army to clamp down on the rebels.
	www.ekurd.net /mismas/articles/misc2005/8/turkeykurdistan242.htm (486 words)

	Mersin Weather Forecast Reports in Mersin Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mersin province is in southern Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.
		In 2002, the province's name has been changed to Mersin to match the provincial capital's name, as is the case for all Turkish provinces except three.
		The province retained the traffic immatriculation number of 33, Içel having been the 33rd in the alphabetical order of Turkish province names.
	www.turkeyforecast.com /weather/mersin (89 words)

	SkyscraperCity - Mersin - Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mersin is one of the most modern provinces of the palmlined avenues, city park and modern hotels region and a good base for visiting the nearby historical sites and beaches.
		Mersin which is the largest port on the Turkish Mediterranean.
		You are right, the Mersin Merit Tower or whatever it is called is very notable structure, however it is highly doubtful that Mersin is one of the most beautiful cities in Turkey.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=178975 (1261 words)

	Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The climate is a Mediterranean temperate climate, with hot, dry summers and mild, wet and cold winters, though conditions can be much harsher in the more arid interior.
		The province usually bears the same name as the provincial capital, also called the central subprovince; exceptions are Hatay (capital: Antakya), Kocaeli (capital: İzmit) and Sakarya (capital: Adapazarı).
		The capital city of Turkey is Ankara, but the historic capital İstanbul remains the financial, economic and cultural centre of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkey (4221 words)

	Chronology of the Armenian Genocide -- 1915 (July-September)
		Behaeddin Shakir sends a cipher telegram to the governor-general of Adalia Province, Sabur Sami Bey, asking him what steps he was taking at a time, when in Erzerum, Van, Bitlis, Diyarbekir, Sivas, and Trebizond Provinces, not a single Armenian remains because they have all been sent in the direction of Mosul and Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor).
		Sabit, the governor-general of Kharput Province, informs the Interior Ministry that all the road are filled with the bodies of women and children and time cannot be found to bury them.
		He also reports that the Muslims of Angora Province worship the Ittihad party and government for its committed deeds and that the same can be secured in Bolu if the same measures are taken there.
	www.armenian-genocide.org /1915-3.html (2665 words)

	REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM
		Mersin that an important harbour city at East Mediterranean shore, offers every possible activities to travellers with streets overshadowed by palms, city park, modern hotels, ruins near the city, numberless beaches.
		At the 320 kilometre length coast band of Mersin province that 108 kilometre of them is sanded shores and formed with naturel beaches, is very rich by the means of historical, cultural values.
		At the Mersin that is settlement place since Neolithic Period, there are lots of archaeological and historical creations remains from calceolithic, Hittite, Rome, Byzantine and Ottoman civilisations.
	www.kultur.gov.tr /EN/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313404F9755767D76FF9DB0AA138C133A8F (420 words)

	Mersin - Içel Photo Album 2004
		Mersin with a population of about 750,000 is the capital of the province of İçel and is a sprawling modern city built half a century ago.
		It is Anatolia's main port, close to Adana and its rich agricultural hinterland.
		For us Mersin was a pleasant stop point on our way from Antakya to Tarsus and Kızkalesi with a charming city centre along the pedestrianised Atatürk Caddesi and a broad boulevard along the waterfront.
	www.anatolia.luwo.be /Mersin.htm (182 words)

	Turkish press yesterday - Turkish Daily News Nov 22, 2005
		Turkish newspapers yesterday wrote about the number of rural schools that are closed; an interview with the head of the Turkish Central Bank; protests in southern Mersin province; the double standards of two European countries; and juvenile delinquents.
		The number attending schools in rural areas is decreasing as a result of families moving to urban areas, and as a consequence schools are being closed one by one.
		The newspaper listed the provinces in which schools are now closed: 80 are closed in Bayburt, 80 in Tunceli, 42 in Bitlis, 44 in Kars, nine in Elazığ, two in Iğdır and one in Muş.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=28800 (826 words)

	Five suspected terrorists detained - Turkish Daily News Aug 08, 2005
		Mersin, located on Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast, is home to a large community of immigrants from the southeast.
		A little known Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, which police say is a cover for PKK attacks on civilians, claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the Aegean resort of Çesme on July 10, which left 20 people injured, and threatened more attacks on tourist targets.
		In the most recent incident, a bomb blast blamed on the PKK killed five soldiers in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Friday, prompting a pledge by the army to clamp down on the terrorists.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=20176 (399 words)

	The Bolkar Mountains "3524 m
		Continuing the line of summits in a Southeasterly direction, the Bolkar Mountains are bounded by the Göksu river to the West and the Pozanti river to the East.The Northern part of the mountains lies in Nigde province while the Southern peaks rise in Mersin province.
		Made of sedimentary material such as limestone and dolomites, the range reveals excellent examples of nappes, or folds in the layers of rocks.
		The Northeastern extension of the Central Toros (Taurus) range, the Mercan range, straddles both the Tunceli and Erzincan provinces.
	eturac.tripod.com /mounts/bolkar/The_Bolkar_Mountains.htm (314 words)

	2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey
		In February demonstrators in Mersin Province claimed police shot and killed Umit Gonultas during a protest in support of Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
		In June the High Court of Appeals overturned a murder conviction reached by a court in Sinop Province on the grounds that police interrogated the defendant without granting him access to an attorney and there was evidence that the suspect had been tortured.
		For example, in February demonstrators in Mersin Province claimed police shot and killed Umit Gonultas during a protest in support of Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the terrorist PKK.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm (16498 words)

	IRIB PERSIAN NEWS PAGE
		Ankara, Nov 23 - Nine people were killed and 18 others injured on Wednesday as a passenger train crashed into a vehicle carrying workers in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
		The report said the train was en route from another southern province of Adana to Mersin when it collided with a lorry in Tarsus town in Mersin.
		Nine people died at the spot and the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, the report added.
	www.iribnews.ir /Full_en.asp?news_id=201960&n=32 (206 words)

	Moutaineering in Turkey - All About Turkey
		The Cilo-Sat mountains, within the southeastern Hakkari province are the eastern extension of the Toros (Taurus) mountain chain which stretches from west to east along Turkey's southern boundaries.
		The long range is situated in the provinces of Nigde and Adana and rises between Lake Ecemis and the Zamanti river.
		The western branch of the Toros (Taurus) mountains, the Beydaglari range, is located in the province of Antalya.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /mountain.htm (3004 words)

	HPG Online
		On Monday, over 10,000 people in Mersin joined the burial ceremony of Murat Demir, a Kurdish protester who was gunned down by Turkish security forces during a demonstration in the Çilek district of the city on Nov. 20.
		Kurdish demonstrators in the town of Cizre in the Sirnak province of northern Kurdistan, protesting the bomb attack against a Kurdish bookstore by a Turkish military intelligence unit, clashed with Turkish security forces yesterday when the demonstrators refused to obey calls made by the security forces to end the demonstration.
		Kurds all over northern Kurdistan and Turkey are now showing their support of the violent demonstrations that have rocked the major Kurdish cities of Yuksekova, Semdinli and Hakkari, ignited by the bomb attack on a Kurdish bookstore by a Turkish military intelligence unit.
	www.hpg-online.com /eng (2219 words)

	In Focus - Monachus Guardian 1 (2): December 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After the loss of almost two thirds of the last surviving sizeable population of Mediterranean monk seals on the Mauritanian coast in 1997, small individual groups scattered in remote locations, which have been overlooked and even ignored so far, are now gaining more importance.
		The monk seals inhabiting the Cilician Basin in the Eastern Mediterranean, corresponding largely to the Turkish province of Mersin, are among these neglected individuals.
		Until recently, the seals of this region were unknown to science, although large herds were once known to the locals, who find it unbelievable to hear that the species is now faced with extinction.
	www.monachus.org /mguard02/02infocu.htm (1232 words)

	Kurdish protestors demonstrated in Turkey's major cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Three police officers and a Kurdish demonstrator were injured in a demonstration in Ceyhan town in the southern Turkish province of Adana, the Anatolia news agency reported.
		Ceyhan governor Mehmet Oklu told Anatolia that two of the officers were wounded by gunfire.
		Meanwhile, Kurdish demonstrators hurled a petrol bomb at the building of a local newspaper in the southern Anatolian province of Mersin, but the ensuing blaze was quickly put out by fire fighters.
	www.hr-action.org /archive1/990219afp1.html (325 words)

	Mountaineering in Nemrut, Nimrod, Süphan, Bey Bolkar, Munzur Mountains by Turkish Travel
		It is located within the province of Bitlis, rising from the South-western shore of Lake Van and entering the district of Ahlat to the North.
		Nemrut is the Southernmost and youngest of the chain of volcanoes in Eastern Anatolia.
		Continuing the line of summits in a Southeasterly direction, the Bolkar Mountains are bounded by the Göksu river to the West and the Pozanti river to the East.
	www.turkishtravel.com /mountain02.htm (980 words)

	Kurdish Info - 10,000 in Demir's burial ceremony in Mersin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NEWSDESK, Nov 23 (DozaMe.org) - On Monday, over 10,000 people in Mersin joined the burial ceremony of Murat Demir, a Kurdish protester who was gunned down by Turkish security forces during a demonstration in the Çilek district of the city on Nov. 20.
		The body of Demir was taken to the Eyup mosque in the Çilek district to be prepared for burial.
		A speech was held by the former Mersin province chairman of the pro-Kurdish party DEHAP, lawyer Muzaffer Akad, before starting the march to the cemetery.
	www.kurdishinfo.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4472 (380 words)

	Emeğin Partisi - EMEP - The Party of Labour
		In Izmir, third largest province of Turkey, celebrations were held in four different places prior to the central May Day Demonstration.
		The police wanted to intervene in the march of the workers, who came out of their work-places to participate in the central demonstration.
		The Branch Chief of Tunceli Police Security called the President of EMEP, Tunceli Province Organization and said that they couldn't allow the demonstration as it was banned by the Regional Governorship.
	www.emep.org /docs/labour/mayday.html (1128 words)

	Mountaineering, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
		This long range, situated in the provinces of Nigde, Kayseri and Adana, rises between Lake Ecemis and the Zamanti river.
		Continuing the line of summits in a Southeasterly direction, the Bolkar Mountains are bounded by the Goksu river to the West and the Pozanti river to the East.
		The Northern parts of the mountain lie in Nigde province while the Southern peaks rise in Mersin province.
	www.adiyamanli.org /mountaineering_turkey.htm (2904 words)

	Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two Syrian men pulled from the sea by tourists on a yacht said that they were among 37 immigrants and two sailors aboard a boat that sank in the area on September 26, Turkish Cypriot police said in a statement carried by the local TAK news agency.
		The vessel had left Turkey's southern province of Mersin on the Mediterranean coast across from the island of Cyprus, the survivors said.
		The cause of the crash in insurgency-hit Zabul province was unknown but there were "no indications of hostile fire involved at this time", it said in a statement.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050926-085814-5140r (3848 words)

	Land Degradation and Desertification Newsletter \| NRCS Soils
		Thus, special areas, apart from the ones which are already lost to unplanned tourism and urbanisation, in the central and southern coastal parts (especially the Mersin province) of the country, should be detached as national parks associated with a multidisciplinary approach which will amalgamate elements of history, landscape architecture and soil/earth sciences.
		For this purpose, the topographic map published in 1963, aerial photos taken in 1975 and Landsat TM digital data acquired in 1993 were used to trace land use changes during last 30 years.
		The Mersin province continuously spread out to the surrounding agricultural land in an increasing rate from 1963 to the present.
	soils.usda.gov /use/worldsoils/landdeg/199702news.html (7168 words)

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