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Air quality in Turkey's 29 metropolises has improved significantly as people stay at home and fewer cars hit the roads amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Air pollution in those provinces dropped as much as 32 percent, according to data from the Environment and Urbanization Ministry and local municipalities.

Doctors across Turkey on April 9 discharged patients who have recovered from COVID-19 with a resounding round of applause.
All of them were informed about the 14-day home quarantine period and social isolation. Doctors will remain to monitor the patients.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Feb. 12 called on the EU and other European countries to take a "principled and honorable" stand against terrorism.

Erdoğan spoke at a meeting in Turkey's southeastern province of Kahramanmaras where he said no treacherous activities against Turkey would succeed either on the field or at the table.

Turkey's state-owned banks have agreed to further reduce loan rates to support economic activity, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has said.

A man in Turkey's southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş has been using an ancient Roman column that he discovered while building his house as a coffee table.

A 29-year-old man in the southeastern province of Kahramanmaraş was detained by the police after footage showing him beating his wife in the street went viral on Oct. 31. 

Archaeological works in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş's Domuztepe Mound have unearthed an 8,000-year-old tool made of obsidian stone, believed to have been used as a razorblade, along with a spinner. 

An ancient urn tomb believed to date back around 3,000 years has been discovered in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş.

An Islamic-Ottoman complex named on the Seven Sleepers in Turkey's southeastern Kahramanmaraş province is preparing to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage list. Click through for the story in photos...

Turkey needs "new blood" and a "new name" as its president in order to move forward, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce said on June 18 at a rally in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş.