Cemetery

Attempts to inter Ahmet Suphi Alt?ndöken, the convicted felon in the brutal rape and killing of 20-year-old-student Özgecan Aslan in February 2015, have precipitated a crisis after village residents locked the doors of their cemetery and refused to bury Alt?ndöken's body. 

Two Italian designers, Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, have put forth a green alternative to cemeteries, funerals and burials – even cremation. The Capsula Mundi concept uses an egg-shaped burial pod of biodegradable starch plastic as the coffin where the body is placed in a fetal position.

A horse burial which contained an unusually well preserved skeleton of a horse, intact even down to the hooves, was discovered during landscaping works around the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre in the Faliro Delta.

The find was presented to the Central Archaeological Council in a session held on Tuesday.

The remains of 56 people of Serb nationality have been taken out of a mass grave at the cemetery in the village of Gornje Seliste in central Croatia.

The exhumation lasted seven days, Tanjug reported on Wednesday.

Cemeteries in Greece are overcrowded and have nowhere to expand . For this reason bodies are often kept underground for three years before being exhumed so that bones can be stored at an ossuary.

Families have the option of leasing for another three years, but the costs are prohibitive. Most people choose to exhume the graves.

Turkish police fired tear gas at a teenaged grave robber who became trapped "in search of gold teeth," daily Hürriyet has reported. 

According to reports, a 16-year-old Syrian youth dug a tunnel inside the Central Cemetery in Istanbul's Ba?c?lar district on Nov. 13, allegedly in order to enter a grave and steal gold teeth. 

Graves found during excavations on Giresun Island in Turkey's Black Sea region indicate that religious life was dominant on the island, which featured a complete monastery complexArchaeologists working on one of Turkey's few Black Sea islands, Giresun Island, have found evidence suggesting that religion was paramount on the piece of land, which lies 1.2 kilometers off the Turkish coast.

A horrific account of someone buried …alive or a viral Internet hoax from Honduras, of all places?
You decide.
Regardless, wouldn’t an autopsy by a couple of internationally known coroners flown to the central American country solve this question?

This year's excavations at the ancient city of Stratonikeia, which is located in the western province of Mu?la's Yata?an district and on UNESCO's tentative World Heritage Site list, have unearthed many Byzantine-era tombs. The ancient city is considered one of the world's largest marble cities. 

The BBC feature on Greece, titled “Graveyard Overcrowding Stokes Cremation Debate in Greece”, focuses on problems concerning burials at cemeteries in Athens and Thessaloniki that are overcrowded. The cost of a permanent grave plot is at 100,000 euros, meaning that cremation – legalized in 2006 – would be a more viable option.