Aksu City

All quake-hit cultural structures recovered in 3 years

The Culture and Tourism Ministry aims to complete the work regarding all the cultural structures damaged by the Feb. 6 quakes within three years, a senior official has stated.

A large number of historical and cultural structures were damaged in the twin earthquakes that jolted the southern part of the country in early February.

Veteran engineer living with bullet in his chest since July 15

A civil engineer who was shot while helping injured civilians on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul on the night of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, has been living with a bullet in his chest for five years.

Murat Aksu told daily Hürriyet about what happened on the bridge that night and afterward.