Erzurum

The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has announced that Meral Danış Beştaş and Murat Çepni will compete as their municipal mayoral candidates for Istanbul in the upcoming local elections scheduled for March 31.

Hoteliers in Türkiye's main ski resorts are optimistic that occupancy rates will be around 100 percent during the school break, which will start on Jan. 19.

Many people are expected to go on vacation during the winter break, which will give a boost to local tourism activity. The country's ski resorts will be one of the main beneficiaries of the short break.

Parties, celebrations and events put people in high spirits as they bid adieu to 2023 and welcomed the new year with open arms.

People filled the prominent squares across the country as events took place in several provinces to mark the start of the new year.

Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Mehmet Özhaseki has announced that the hottest November of the last five decades was experienced in 2023, while the average temperature in November was 3.2 degrees above the normal temperature averages.

A French anthropologist has returned to Türkiye in order to locate the children he captured in photographs 43 years ago.

Victor Dallant (68), who holds a master's degree in anthropology and boarded the Orient Express from Istanbul in 1980 at the age of 25, took photos of children playing ball and skiing in a neighborhood in the eastern province of Erzurum.

Fairy chimneys in Narman district of the eastern province of Erzurum are on the way to become a member of the UNESCO World Heritage List if the region is turned into a geopark, an expert has said, refusing the claims that the region was once removed from UNESCO's tentative list.

Within the scope of the project initiated by the Culture and Tourism Ministry to preserve folk music for future generations, folklore researchers are recording folk songs sung by deceased bards and local artists in the eastern province of Erzurum.

Two computer engineering students in the eastern province of Erzurum have developed an artificial intelligence system that recognizes traffic signboards on the road and warns the driver.

Works are underway to present visitors with a new museum that will showcase 500 stone artifacts from the ancient period in the eastern province of Erzurum, which has hosted many civilizations in Anatolia for centuries.

When the idea of creating a museum consisting of stone artifacts emerged in 2016, efforts began to collect artifacts in the region.

The eastern province of Erzurum, which does not have a coastline, is on its way to becoming the world's top swimming base thanks to its high-altitude Olympic pool, as the national teams of many countries train in the city.