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10/06/2014 12:05
The Red Church was listed as one of the 100 World Heritage sites in danger in 2008.
After its dome, the other parts of the church will also be restored to attract tourists.
The roof of a 1,500-year-old church in the central Anatolian region of Cappadocia has begun to be restored before its...
09/06/2014 13:33
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has described Istanbul’s third airport at its groundbreaking ceremony as 'a monument of victory'.
The five companies which won the tender thanked Erdoğan by presenting a plaque at the ceremony on June 7.
The construction of the world’s largest airport...
01/06/2014 10:41
Significant artifacts unearthed in the ancient city will be displayed in the museum.
The Hasan Şar House, a century-old building that has served as an excavation house and museum depot in the ancient city of Stratonikeia in the western province of Muğla’s Yatağan, will be restored by the Muğla...
01/06/2014 10:34
Coal was discovered in the Ottoman Empire relatively lately, but administrators soon started extracting it in a move toward industrialization
The coal that was being mined during the interval between 1829 and 1858 came from a number of small privately owned mines that had sprang up.
Sometime...
14/05/2014 16:41
President of the Turkish Traders and Craftsmen Confederation, Bendevi Palandöken, expects that 45 million tourists shall choose Turkey as their holiday destination.
In 2013 the number of tourists visiting Turkey increased with 7,6% reaching a staggering number of almost 40 million. Income from the...
13/05/2014 07:04
I dag har FN utnevnt en kvinne til å lede et fredsoppdrag, og det er første gang en kvinne har fått dette ansvaret.
Generalsekretær Ban Ki-moon utnevnte den norske generalen Kristin Lund som sjef for FNs fredsoppdrag på Kypros. Den 13 august 2014 skal hun erstatte den nåværende kommandanten,...
04/05/2014 16:14
Bursa has a new claim to fame in terms of its historical richness following the discovery of a Roman-era basilica found along the city’s walls
The basilica unearthed in Bursa served both as a court and a religious structure in the early Roman era.
Excavations at a tower in the Tophane portion of...
04/05/2014 16:10
Yörük prayer kilim with tree of life design. Early 20th century.
Did the idea of a world tree or tree of life, present in the mythology of the human race, arise from the millions of years that evolutionary biology states human beings lived in trees as primates? The tree supports the heavens and...
10/04/2014 20:56
TAV Construction has undertaken $11-billion worth projects in the region.
Turkey’s TAV Construction has been named as the “Best Airport Contractor of the Year” at Emerging Markets Airport Awards, championing among top players of the aviation sector.
The contractor that has undertaken $11-billion...
09/04/2014 12:58
We are going through a couple of cold days again. It looks as if spring is playing a game with us; first, it makes us happy with a couple of beautiful sunny days and then, all of a sudden, big black clouds, the temperatures drop and I am getting directly back in my winter psychology again. But I...
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