Anatolian

A teacher at a religious vocational high school in the Central Anatolian province of Konya was dismissed from his post on March 8 over comments he made about female students wearing gym clothes.

A toucan bird illegally smuggled into Turkey from Iran is adjusting to its new home at the Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Zoo in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri, state-run Anadolu agency has reported. The bird’s homeland are the tropical forests of South America. 

Robots produced in Turkey’s first humanoid robot factory in the central Anatolian province of Konya have fascinated people with their Turkish folk dancing skills.

Advertisements showing a model wearing a bra, which had been put up on bus stop billboards in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, have been changed following an angry reaction from a conservative group blasting “immorality.”

The youth branch of an Islamist group in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri has covered advertisements of a bra brand placed on bus stop billboards on the grounds that they were “immoral.”

Thanks to a project developed by academics at Anadolu University in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir, significant artifacts in museums around the world have been materialized with 3D printers for the benefit of visually impaired people.

Police in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas have caught two Iranian women carrying 2.345 kilograms of methamphetamine in their luggage on an inter-city bus.

The deadly Zika virus could spread to the central Anatolian region of Turkey in seven years, Turkish Health Ministry has stated in a recent report.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Turkish scientists a €2.5 million ($2.9 million) grant to analyze the DNA of 1,500 people who used to live in the Anatolian region – the Asian part of present-day Turkey – during the Neolithic period.

Hobbit houses in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas have been getting popular lately and are expected to lure visitors from the Far East. The cottages are set to become a part of a holiday village