Akdeniz University

Local fish population has been declining in the Mediterranean Sea, while tropical species migrating from the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean have been on the rise, according to a Turkish marine scientist.

The migration continues rapidly, and global warming is one of the reasons triggering the migration movements, said Mehmet Gökoğlu from Akdeniz University.

An excavation team in the ancient city of Patara, located in Turkey's Mediterranean coast, unearthed an inscription in an ancient theater.

Located in the Kaş district of southwestern Antalya province, Patara is known as the capital of the ancient Lycian civilization, which consisted of 23 cities in the middle of the first century BC.

The city gate in the ancient city of Patara in the southern province of Antalya, which is believed to date back 2,000 years and said to be unique in the world in terms of its water transfer duty, will get its former glory with a restoration.

Turkey's Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has started a project against the poisonous puffer fish, which started being seen in the country since the 2000's and invaded the Mediterranean coast.

Fishermen will receive five Turkish Liras (80 U.S. cents) from the authorities in exchange for a tail of the puffer fish they caught within the scope of the project.

A portrait sculpture which has been in the Antalya Museum since 1972 belongs to Sappho, known as the first and most important female poet of the ancient period, according to Havva İşkan Işık, a professor of archaeology at Akdeniz University in the southern province of Antalya.

A ship dating back some 3,600 years has been found off Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The shipwreck, found by the Akdeniz University (AU) Underwater Research Center teams, is reported to be oldest in the world.

The Antalya Gulf is under invasion by a growing number of a fish species arriving from the Red Sea that is replacing local unique ones off the coast of the Mediterranean province of Antalya, an Akdeniz University professor of aquaculture has warned. 

Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean city of Antalya is on alert as nine students have been confirmed to have contracted measles. 

A research center at Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean province of Antalya has included “Ufology and Exopolitics” in its latest curriculum, in a bid to prepare for possible contact with visitors from outer space.

Archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Patara in the southern province of Antalya's Kaş district have unearthed 2,350 year-old tools used in daily life. Among them are a mirror frame and an iron fork.

Initiated in 1988, the excavations in Patara have been carried out by Akdeniz University Head of Archaeology Department Professor Havva Işık and her team.