Çıplak Island ( tr, Çıplak Ada, meaning "Barren island", ''Chalkis'' of the antiquity, in Greek known as Gymno ( el, Γυμνό)) is an Aegean island of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

. The island at is a part of

Ayvalık Ayvalık () is a seaside town on the northwestern Aegean coast of Turkey. It is a district of Balıkesir province. The town centre is connected to Cunda Island by a causeway and is surrounded by the archipelago of Ayvalık Islands, which face ...

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

(district) of

Balıkesir Province Balıkesir Province ( tr, ) is a province in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale to the west, İzmir to the southwest, Manisa to the south, Kütahya to the sou ...

. Its distance to mainland is . With an area of it is one of the larger islands around Ayvalık. It’s the southernmost island of the

Ayvalık Islands Ayvalık () is a seaside town on the northwestern Aegean coast of Turkey. It is a district of Balıkesir province. The town centre is connected to Cunda Island by a causeway and is surrounded by the archipelago of Ayvalık Islands, which face ...

archipelago, and the only one with shores to both

Edremit Gulf The Edremit gulf tr, Edremit körfezi el, Αδραμυττηνός κόλπος, Adramyttinós kólpos is an Aegean gulf in Turkey's Balıkesir Province. It is named after Edremit, an ilçe (district) of Balıkesir Province which is situated cl ...

and

Dikili Gulf Dikili Gulf ( tr, Dikili Körfezi) is an Aegean gulf of Turkey. The gulf is named after the district center Dikili. The midpoint of the gulf is at The gulf is mostly in İzmir Province and partly in Balıkesir Province including Sarımsaklı be ...

. The uninhabited island was a natural pasture for sheep breeding. Every year the shepherds used to bring sheep herd to the island. However they now complain of rabbits which infest the grazing land.Sabah newspaper
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