Cappadocia

Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba is seen in this file photo while inspecting potato seeds during a farming event in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde on March 23, 2018. Photo: Doğan News Agency

Three mountaineers were rescued on June 4 after being stranded for 13 hours on Demirkazık Mountain in the central province of Niğde.

As the soil, heavy with the burden of countless burials, fell onto my friend's coffin I thought of the many journeys he had made. Always in a hurry - always with something important ahead, whether heading off to a war zone, a theatrical performance or a rendezvous - yet always calm.

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayor in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde was shot dead by a seasonal worker on May 8.

The ancient city of Kilistra, which was inhabited in the 3rd century B.C. and draws attention for its Cappadocia-like texture, is home to a cross-planned chapel, the Hyacinth (Sümbül) Church, and a large water cistern.

Among one of the world's biggest canyons, the Ihlara Valley resembles an open-air museum, with its historical and natural beauty, and attracts visitors for its hiking routes and magnificent scenery. 

A fresco depicting a smiling Virgin Mary in the Gümüşler Monastery in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde has been drawing much attention of local and foreign tourists, but it is yet to be found whether she was actually smiling when the fresco was first made or it is the result of a restoration that went wrong. 

The Cappadocia region has recently been drawing more interest from foreign tourists thanks to its fairy chimneys, valleys covered with natural rock formations, historical rock-carved monasteries, underground cities and hot-air balloon tours, and it is set to revive Turkey's tourism sector.

Turkey’s ‘fairy chimneys’ await Chinese tourists as part of ‘Chinadocia’ project

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.