Datça
Badem was found resting on a boat away from shore at Datça.
Source: SAD-AFAG field update
7 Jan 2009 · DatçaTürkiye · Mediterranean Sea
Türkiye · stories
From the public record.
Read recent published observations from Türkiye. Each entry keeps its original source attribution and a link back to the archive.
Datça
SAD-AFAG representative Sezer Çete observed free-ranging Badem at Palamutbükü during a health check.
Source: SAD-AFAG field update
5 Jan 2009 · DatçaDatça
Badem was seen at Palamutbükü in the late afternoon after moving from the Bodrum coast.
Source: SAD-AFAG field update
25 Dec 2008 · DatçaBodrum
Badem was seen again on the Bodrum coast the following day.
Source: SAD-AFAG field update
16 Dec 2008 · BodrumBodrum
Badem was seen on the Bodrum coast while free-ranging.
Source: SAD-AFAG field update
15 Dec 2008 · BodrumAkyaka
Badem was free-ranging in shallow water at Akyaka when several people swam with her. The account describes defensive bites after they tried to move her toward the beach.
Source: Cem O. Kıraç and Harun Güçlüsoy / SAD-AFAG
10 May 2008 · AkyakaKemer
Marina staff photographed a young monk seal swimming among boats in Kemer Marina. The pup left the area later the same day.
Source: Cem O. Kıraç / SAD-AFAG in The Monachus Guardian
12 Dec 2007 · KemerIstanbul coast
The adult female monk seal photographed on 8 December was observed again along the northern Sea of Marmara coast.
Source: Cem O. Kıraç and Harun Güçlüsoy / SAD-AFAG
10 Dec 2007 · Istanbul coastIstanbul coast
A local observer photographed an adult female Mediterranean monk seal along the northern Sea of Marmara coast. The same animal was seen again two days later.
Source: Cem O. Kıraç and Harun Güçlüsoy / SAD-AFAG
8 Dec 2007 · Istanbul coastKaş
A monk seal pup was seen on a pebble beach near Kaş, sheltering by shoreline vegetation. It later returned to the sea on its own.
Source: Cem O. Kıraç / SAD-AFAG in The Monachus Guardian
6 Dec 2007 · KaşFethiye
Locals photographed a young monk seal pup on a beach near Ölüdeniz. It left on its own later that day.
Source: Cem O. Kıraç / SAD-AFAG in The Monachus Guardian
28 Nov 2007 · FethiyeDidim
A young Mediterranean monk seal was found swimming and then resting on the beach at Didim. The wild encounter date is distinct from the subsequent rescue and rehabilitation.
Source: SAD-AFAG / contemporaneous reporting
5 December 2006 · Didim