Central Anatolia Region

A high school girl in Turkey's central Anatolian province of Kayseri committed suicide on Feb. 17 after being sexually assaulted by her teacher. 

A 16-year-old high school student has been shot dead by her boyfriend, allegedly for wanting to break up with him, in the yard of her school in Central Anatolian Aksaray province. 

Elif Zelal Yeni was shot and killed with a rifle by 18-year-old Samet Ermi? at the schoolyard of Osman Gazi Anatolian High School, where she was a student, at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 11.

The Penn Museum will host an exclusive exhibition titled 'The Golden Age of King Midas,' featuring a spectacular array of specially-loaned ancient artifacts from TurkeyAn exhibition titled "The Golden Age of King Midas," featuring ancient artifacts from the era of King Midas, will be displayed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum between Feb. 13 and Nov. 27.  

A team of Turkish archaeologists have found an early Christian church in an underground settlement near Nevsehir, in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey.

The archaeologists have dated the church to the 5th century CE. They discovered the church in a large underground city that the scientists found in March 2015, as sci-news website mentions.

At least 69 people have been injured in two separate bus crashes in central Turkey, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Some 14 people were injured after a passenger bus went off a road connecting Kayseri, a central province, and Malatya, an eastern province, early Feb. 7 because of heavy gusts and ice.

Winter tourism needs to be diversified in Cappadocia, which is famous for fairy chimneys, rock-carved boutique hotels, underground cities and natural rock formations, according to local tourism representatives.

The number of tourists visiting the Ihlara Valley, one of the most important routes of Cappadocia in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray, increased by 12 percent to 491,380 last year compared to 2014. 

The Ihlara Valley is a site of stunning natural beauty and is home to a series of ancient Christian churches and frescoes tucked away in stone caves. 

Sports and politics have never been two separate issues, especially in a country such as Turkey. After 13 years of one-party rule, the influence of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Turkish sports is ever obvious.

Football, the most popular sport in the country - and the world - was of course the focus of the AKP's attention.

Thirteenth-century mystic Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi was celebrated on the 742nd anniversary of his death in the Central Anatolian province of Konya

Some 45,000 Christians who fled Syria and Iraq are forced to hide their religious identity in the Turkish provinces of Yozgat, Aksaray and Çorum.