Ardahan

The fate of a 19th-century military officer found last year inside an unearthed coffin in the eastern Turkish province of Ardahan has reportedly been straining ties between Russia and Poland. 

Gülcan Palavan, an 18-year-old national athlete who ranked third in the World Youth Mountain Cross Running Championship in 2015 in Bulgaria, gets ready for the championships while working as a shepherd and waitress at the same time in the eastern province of Ardahan.

A former deputy representing the southeastern province of Batman, Ayla Akat Ata, was detained by police on Feb. 19 within the scope of an investigation conducted by the office of the chief prosecutor in the eastern province of Ardahan.

"Siberian" cold gripped east Anatol, informs Turkish NTV. This night in the region of Gole in the northeastern district of Ardahan was recorded a temperature of minus 26.3 degrees Celsius.

In the city of Erzurum (eastern Turkey), the mercury at night showed minus 25 degrees, and during the day the maximum temperature was minus 8 degrees Celsius.

A 19th-century Russian military officer who was found inside an unearthed coffin in the eastern province of Ardahan is of Polish origin and will be returned to Poland, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said.

Some 10,771 incidents of violence against healthcare workers were reported in Turkey in 2016, the Health Ministry has announced following an MP's inquiry, daily Birgün reported on June 19.

The identity of a 19th-century Russian military officer who was found inside an unearthed coffin in the eastern province of Ardahan last month has been revealed, daily Habertürk reported on May 21.

The soldier was identified as Lt. Col. Karl Karlovich Rjepetsky, who was a member of the 78th Navaginsky regiment of the 20th infantry division of the 1st Caucasian Army Corps.

A scientific board has been established to examine the skeleton of a Russian military officer that was found inside an unearthed coffin in the eastern province of Ardahan last month, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on May 17.

The Türközü border gate at the Turkish-Georgian border was closed for nearly three hours after a radiation alarm in the region. 

Machines at the Georgian customs gate detected radiation and it was later understood that it was coming from the Turkish side, prompting the Georgian authorities to warn officials in the eastern province of Ardahan, Doğan News Agency reported on May 9. 

Construction workers in northeastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved skeleton, allegedly belonging to a 19th century Russian soldier who died fighting during the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish war.