Cappadocia

Hot air balloon rides in the tourist hub Cappadocia in central Anatolia’s Nevşehir province were suspended on Feb. 16 due to severe weather conditions caused by winds, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

An ibex cub, which got lost in the mountainside of the Central Anatolian province of Niğde, took shelter kilometers away with owners of a trout breeding facility on Feb. 11.

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.”

Turkish defense companies successfully test-fired its domestically produced HİSAR-A missile on Feb. 1 in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray.

Van’s Başkale district, home to rock formations that look like the fairy chimneys in the Cappadocia region, needs promotional activities to host tourists since the end of terrorism in the region

The Cappadocia region in the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir is ready for a busy period during Turkey’s holiday season

The number of tourists that have visited Cappadocia, a central Anatolian destination famous for its underground cities, houses carved into rock and volcanic cones called “fairy chimneys,” increased around 48 percent in 2017, due to a boost from Russia.

Suffering from a lack of promotion despite its diverse tourist attractions, the Kayseri Municipality is seeking to increase its share in tourism by highlighting the city’s assets starting from its ski center in the nearby Mount Erciyes.

Archaeologists from the Hacı Bektaş University in the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir have unearthed a Bronze Age settlement in Cappadocia.