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Istanbul's Topkapı Palace Museum is undergoing the most comprehensive restoration project in its history. The ongoing 24 projects are expected to cost 220 million Turkish Liras, Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı has said in a statement.

Just a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bragged about the defeat of the Greeks by the Turkish army in 1923 in Asia Minor, a book authored by a pro-Erdogan historian and claiming the transformation of the Orthodox Christian Cathedral Hagia Sofia into a museum in 1935 was the result of American diplomats to prevent the historic Church from being turned into a Mosque and did not ta

A statue of 16th century Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (Mehmed the Conqueror) will be erected in Istanbul's Golden Horn, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş announced on April 1. 

According to the lawyer of the two Turkish officers that surrended to the Greek authorities, Stavroula Tomara, there were three more officers with them that left first from Orestiada to Thessaloniki by bus.

Renowned Turkish historian İlber Ortaylı has criticized a controversial plan made by Istanbul's Fatih district to convert its historic city walls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a wedding hall, urging preservation boards to take additional care for the city's appearance and profile. 

The Fatih Municipality of Istanbul has controversially converted historic city walls, on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites protected list, for the construction of a new wedding hall, covering them with a portable roof after receiving permission from the Provincial Board of Cultural Property Protection. 

A long-awaited restoration in the world's oldest covered bazaar, Istanbul's historic Grand Bazaar, has begun with efforts to replace the tiles in the commercial and tourist venue. 

Restoration plans of the 554-year-old bazaar, known as "Kapalıçarşı" in Turkish, initially began seven months ago.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has prepared a new construction project on the coastline of Istanbul's Golden Horn that will transform a 9,000 square-meter area with remnants of Ottoman-era armory depots into an education facility and a culture center, amid concerns that the area is at risk of flooding. 

Bigger is better is not the adage with Necati Korkmaz; instead the artist has created an opus of 25 examples of Turkish calligraphy that take up all of one centimeter.

Known as one of three micro-sculptors in the world, Korkmaz creates his works in the Gubari calligraphy form on lentil seeds.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) has approved a change in its zoning plan for the city's historical peninsula, despite objection from its local urban planning office, which claimed the new regulation would lead to "irreversible" outcomes.