Hatay

Kurtuluş Street (Herod Caddesi) in Antakya in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, a kind of shopping center for the rich in the ancient era known as the "world's first illuminated" street, is set to  come back to life nine-meters underground. The first traces of human settlement in Antakya date back to the Paleolithic Age.

A group of Syrian students are seen at an edecation center in the Reyhanlı distrrict of the southern province of Hatay. 

The Education Ministry plans to temporarily employ 4,200 teachers for Syrian students in Turkey to teach the Turkish language and integrate them into the education system.

The first international step of the Mosaic Road project, initiated by the ONE Association, which has been formed to develop national and international projects promoting Anatolian heritage, was taken in Swiss village of Gstaad. An exhibition, featuring mosaic works by jewelry artist Sevan B?çakç?, opened in the village as part of the project. 

Some 200 Syrian migrants and a Turkish captain were intercepted by Turkish Coast Guard teams as they attempted to cross to the Greek island of Rhodes from the touristic Turkish town of Marmaris late on Dec. 24.

A wooden gullet was carrying the group, mostly women and children, "for 4,000 dollars per person," according to local reports.

Daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-chief Can Dündar and the paper's Ankara representative, Erdem Gül, have been arrested because of stories they wrote. 

Here is a chronology to better understand the issue in our country where everything is extremely confusing: 

As expected from a city founded by Amazons, the women of ?zmir are fighting violence against women through art, theater and a strong determination to take offenders to court.The tradition of talismanic shirts ? known as the Ottoman magic shirts- dates from Turkey?s shamanist past.

People took to the streets, with many of them rushing to hospitals, after a 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey?s Mediterranean Sea at 1:00 a.m. on July 30 off the Mersin bay and was felt in the southern provinces of Mersin, Adana, Hatay and Osmaniye, with no casualties reported.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry has refuted claims that the restoration of ancient mosaics in the southern city of Hatay has seriously damaged the works, saying the photos published in the press were taken during the initial phase of the restoration. 

A Turkish court has arrested 17 active soldiers who stopped Syria-bound trucks belonging to the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), which were stopped and searched by soldiers last years.

Arrest warrants were issued for 33 soldiers and one officer involved in the stopping of Turkish National Intelligence Agency (M?T) trucks in Turkey?s southeastern provinces of Adana and Hatay in January 2014, within a probe into the state-officials who conducted the ?Selam-Tevhid? investigation, which was put away with a nonsuit decision in 2014.