Anadolu Agency

A 13-year-old Turkish girl broke the world record for two consecutive years at Guinness World Records Kids' "Longest Time Dribbling Two Basketballs While Blindfolded" category.

Ecrin Mart, who broke a record by making 142 dribbles in 22 seconds in 2020, equaled the record again on Feb. 5.

Turkish scientists working on the cure of Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM) disease obtained successful drug treatment results in their research.

Solaklar Rock Houses, built by Phrygians 3,200 years ago in the northwestern province of Bolu's Seben district and survived to this day, offer visitors a journey to the past away from the crowd during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

Mustafa Aslan, a university student who has been interested in wildlife since his childhood thanks to documentary films, is trying to raise awareness to wildlife by photographing 250 bird species and various land animals in four years.

U.S. LNG carrier, LNG Abalamabie, is due to arrive in Turkey on Feb. 8, according to ship-tracking data gleaned by Anadolu Agency on Feb. 5.

With a capacity of 170,000 cubic meters, the vessel left the U.S. port of Freeport on Jan. 24 and is currently en route to its next destination, the Aliaga LNG terminal in Izmir.

The history of Kibatos Castle, an important structure of the Byzantine period, which was discovered at a depth of about 3 meters in 2019 in the Marmara Sea, is being revealed through research.

Snow depth in Turkey remained lower this winter season than past years, data from the General Directorate of Meteorology showed on Feb. 2. 

According to records accessed by Anadolu Agency, snow depth in Turkey was usually found to be around the average human height, which is 180 centimeters (5 feet 9 inches) for men and 160 centimeters (5 feet 2 inches) for women.

Turkish police on Feb. 2 detained more than 170 people in Istanbul and Ankara following the protests against the appointment of a new rector at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.

Some 104 people were detained in the sprawling commercial hub of Istanbul and another 69 in the capital Ankara, police said in two statements.

Later on, 94 of the detainees in Istanbul were released. 

The view of the ancient city of Bergama 2,300 years ago has been uploaded to a digital platform and made available on the internet.

The German Archeology Institute, which works in the ancient city of Bergama, a site on the UNESCO World Heritage List, mapped the 12.5-square-kilometer area on a digital platform.

The unique mosaics in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, one of the world's largest mosaic museums located in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep, are being cleaned by an expert team with the utmost care and precision to protect them for future generations.