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Conservation, restoration and integration works have been initiated for the Hellenistic towers in the ancient city of Perge (or Perga),  in the southern province of Antalya in Turkey. The work was carried out by the Antalya Directorate of Surveying and...

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) has agreed after two decades of negotiations to return the top half of an ancient Hercules statue to Turkey. On Thursday the 23rd, MFA Director Malcolm Rogers met with director general for Cultural...

A marble altar with an ancient Greek inscription has been discovered at the site of Patara, close to city of Antalya in Turkey.

The Russia - Ukraine talks in Turkey between the foreign ministers of each nation failed to make any progress toward declaring a ceasefire in the invasion, according to the foreign ministers of the two nations, who spoke to the...

Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will meet with the longtime Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, in Turkey on Thursday while the Russian invasion of Ukraine is going into its third week. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the press on...

A team of Turkish underwater researchers last week discovered what they believe to be the world’s oldest shipwreck, from approximately 1600 B.C. According to the Turkish provincial governor’s office, the 3,600-year-old Bronze Age shipwreck was found off the shores of...

Turkey’s population hit 82 million as of the end of 2018, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) said on Friday. Official figures revealed that the population residing in Turkey increased by 1,193,357 people year-on-year. The “male population was 41,139,980 people and female...

Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez has announced that the Turkish drilling vessel "Fatih" ("Conquerer") will begin drilling operations in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday. The first area where the vessel is expected to drill is located 100 kilometers (62...

Turkey has woken up to a 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocking the country this morning, around 92km from the popular tourist city of Antalya on the south coast of the country. The quake was felt also in Cyprus where local media...

A tragic accident in the Turkish Mediterranean has claimed the lives of at least nine migrants. Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency reports coast guard sources saying the speedboat sank in the early hours of Sunday morning, a few kilometers southwest off...

Almost two meters of the ancient city of Phaselis have submerged in 2,000 years, indicated by studies carried out by geologists and geomorphologists in the area, Turkish archaeologists say. Professor Murat Arslan speaking to Hurriyet says that the submerging is...

Turkey will carry out its first hydrocarbon drilling in the Mediterranean later this year and its first deep drilling in 2018, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak stated on Oct. 11. Albayrak said Turkey aimed to open wells in Turkish and Cypriot...

Mosaics dating back 1,600 years, have been uncovered in the ancient city of İdyrus in the southern province of Antalya’s Kemer district. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mustafa Demirel, the Antalya Museum director and the head of İdyrus excavations, said ruins...

Archaeologists in Turkey have made a discovery which could settle a century-old debate and disappoint millions of children around the world. They have unearthed what they say is likely the tomb of the original Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas, beneath...

A 1,800-year-old mosaic, which showed the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra during the Trojan War in Greek mythology, was found at excavation works in the ancient city of Perge in Turkey’s Mediterranean region. Perge excavations head...