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The Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD) has launched a campaign dubbed "year of investment."

On a plate hanging on the entrance of a museum, located at the foot of the Ankara Castle in the Turkish capital Ankara, there is the seal of Hittite King IV Tuthalia (1250-1220 B.C). Along with it, "Anatolian Civilizations Museum 1921" is written.

But behind that plate is hidden an extraordinary history of civilization.

The landowner of what many have dubbed humanity's ground zero has recalled how they stumbled upon the ancient site of Göbeklitepe as they plowed their fields in the late 1980's.

Turkish doctor Sergan Saraçoğlu faces the twin hurdles of a snowstorm in the mountains and local fears of vaccines as he chases after alarmed villagers with a metal case full of needles.

"She had a positive attitude," the doctor says after finally tracking down a 101-year-old grandmother on his list of the elderly due a coronavirus shot in the southeastern Turkish hamlet of İmamlı.

Theater actors and actresses on Dec. 25 staged a public performance to raise awareness on the novel coronavirus pandemic in eastern Turkey.

The Almila Theater Workshop started their efforts on the streets of Elazig province to draw attention to the COVID-19 outbreak, taking up the slogan, The virus is among us.