Turkey, consisting of seven geographical regions, is located between longitudes 26-45 E and latitudes 36-42 N, and serves as a wide land bridge between African, Asian and European countries. Due to its geographical location, climate characteristics, animal management systems and numerous marshes and immigrate bird stations, Turkey has favorable conditions regarding the lives and distribution of ticks (Inci et al., 2016; Mahmoud et al., 2020; Ceylan et al., 2021).

As one of the most significant disease-transmitting vectors, ticks transmit several bacterial, viral, rickettsial and parasitic diseases, and it has been reported to transmit nineteen tick-borne diseases(TBDs)(acanthocheilonemasis, aegyptianellosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, Candidatus Rickettsia vini, Crimean-Kongo Haemorrhagic Fever, cytauxzoonosis, ehrlichiosis, hemoplasmosis, hepatozoonosis, louping-ill, lumpy-skin disease, Lyme disease, tick-borne encephalitis, tick-borne typhus, tick-borne relapsing fever, theileriosis and tularemia)(Inci et al., 2016; Hager et al., 2020). Sheep breeding is preferred owing to orientation of these animals to the compelling environmental conditions,