Anatolian

Defining regional Anatolian cuisine is complicated.

The ruins of an 816-year-old Seljuk inn have emerged from the waters of the Altınapa dam, which provides drinking water to the Central Anatolian province of Konya.

A book praising an Australian jihadist has been distributed among students of a state high school in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

The Fire of Anatolia dance troupe is readying to stage new performances to draw attention to the tragedies refugees experience in Turkey, Mustafa Erdoğan, the general director of the group, has said.  

Turkey's largest business organization, the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB), is set to bring $1 billion worth venture capital funds together with Turkish companies based in Anatolia with high growth potentials in the next two years, its president has said. 

The principal of a Central Anatolian high school who has become the subject of an investigation after he announced that some classes would be gender-segregated starting in the 2017-2018 school year has defended his proposal as no more than "relocating the furniture in a room."

The Turkish Education Ministry on June 13 launched an investigation into the principal of a high school in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, two days after he announced on the school's website that classes would be gender-segregated starting from the 2017-2018 education year, Doğan News Agency has reported

Mustafa Erdoğan, the founder and general art director of Turkey's internationally acclaimed dance troupe, the Fire of Anatolia, said he had received offers to open dance schools abroad, adding that it was his dream to realize such a project. 

Turkey has started legal action for the return of a 5,000-year-old Anatolian marble figure currently on the sale at a New York auction house, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The Living Museum, founded with the aim of bequeathing Anatolian culture to future generations by using interactive methods, is the 10th Changemaker of the 8th season of Sabancı Foundation Turkey's Changemakers Program.