Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are asking Secretary of State Marco Rubio to clarify whether public statements made by the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, reflect the official position of the American government.

A new framework of stricter rules for short-term rentals, including the possibility of even banning the activity in tourism-saturated areas, is introduced by the draft Special Spatial Planning Framework for Tourism, presented yesterday by the Ministries of Environment and Tourism.