Aydın

The Apollo Temple, located in the Aegean province of Aydın's Didim district, is a must-see for those seeking a journey through time. (AA Photo)

The resort town of Kuşadası in the Aegean province of Aydın, which is flocked by both domestic and international tourists every year in the summer season, is now famous for its thematic parks.

Following art, book and football-themed parks, a "dog park" has been opened in the town where dogs can play and train.

Turkey's little-known black community has been living in the Aegean province of Aydın for the past 200 years.

The people who identify themselves as Afro-Turks migrated from Sudan in search of work, mostly on plantations.

The killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a white American police officer, has shocked them like the rest of the world.

Turkish envoy to Germany said racism is still a big threat in Germany on the 27th anniversary of a racist attack in Solingen which saw the killing of five members of a Turkish family.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Ali Kemal Aydın said the pain caused by the racist attack that ultimately killed five Turks including three children is still alive in the hearts of the Turkish community.

The timber vineyard house of a lumberjack who died two years ago in the eastern Aegean province of Kütahya's Domaniç district, was moved to the center of the town by his friends to keep his memory alive.

When Ramazan Akgüneş died two years ago, the wooden house he built remained idle in the village of Durabey.

Museums and ruins on the UNESCO World Heritage List have been put on a virtual environment as people follow stay-at-home orders during World Museum Week, giving an experience to audiences online to enjoy magnificent images.

A university in Istanbul has fired one of its staff after his televised comments about teenage girls' potential for fertility caused public outrage.

During a TV show, Professor Muttalip Kutluk Özgüven, from the computer engineering department at Aydın University, claimed that the age range between 12 to 17 is an ideal period for girls to give birth to their first child.

Frequenters of a local coffee house in Turkey's western province of Aydın have been using a 2,000-year-old Roman milestone as a table for the last 25 years.

Children feel at home at their school thanks to the "shoeless school" project, which follows the Turkish tradition of taking off shoes when entering a home, in western Aydın province of Turkey.

Emperor Diocletian's edict setting price limits for most goods and services 1,718 years ago in the ancient city of Aphrodisias in present-day Karacasulu district in the western province of Aydın will soon be restored and open to visitors.