Pigeon Island has a historic castle planted with greenery. The history of the castle dates back to the Byzantines. It got its final form during the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans used this castle to repel attacks from other islands. You can also visit the whale skeleton that was found in the castle in 1998. This kind of whale is rarely seen on the coast of our country, so it became the focus of great attention.  

An Airial quick shot taken in Turkey

Miletus, Byzantine Palation, Turkish Balat, ancient Greek city of western Anatolia, some 20 miles (30 km) south of the present city of Söke, Turkey. It lies near the mouth of the Büyükmenderes (Menderes) River.

Before 500 BCE, Miletus was the greatest Greek city in the east. It was the natural outlet for products from the interior of Anatolia and had a considerable wool trade with Sybaris, in southern Italy. Miletus was important in the founding of the Greek colony of Naukratis in Egypt and founded more than 60 colonies on the shores of the Black Sea, including Abydos, Cyzicus, Sinope (now Sinop), Olbia, and Panticapaeum. In addition to its commerce and colonization, the city was distinguished for its literary and scientific-philosophical figures, among them Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and Hecataeus. Together with the people of the other two Ionian cities of Caria, Myus and Priene, the Milesians spoke a distinctive Ionian dialect. Little is known about Milesian government before 500 BCE. At the beginning and end of the 6th century BCE, however, the city was ruled by the tyrants Thrasybulus and Histiaeus, respectively.