Konya

Located in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, the Akmanastır Monastery, featuring architecture similar to that of Cappadocia and carved into rock, has been revealed after the relocation of military barracks.

The exhibition "The Trace of Memory: The Neolithic City of Çatalhöyük" is on display at the Atatürk Culture Center (AKM) Gallery.

Curated by Siret Uyanık, the exhibition is jointly organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Konya Metropolitan Municipality. The project is being coordinated by Uyanık and Çatalhöyük Excavation Director Associate Professor Ali Umut Türkcan.

The tall light brown hats worn by whirling dervishes are as intriguing as the elliptical dance performed in honor of the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi.

In Konya, a sprawling city in central Anatolian plain where Rumi spent most of his life and died 750 years ago, one of the last workshops makes these special "sikke" hats to order.

The last nomadic community in Türkiye, the Sarıkeçili Yörüks, who spend the summer months in the region known as the "summer pasture" in the Central Anatolia Region, have embarked on a journey with their camels to reach their winter homes after a six-month stay in Konya.

Stanford University has offered an 18-year-old Turkish student a scholarship of approximately 10 million Turkish Liras ($500,000).

Efe Zaladin, who graduated from a private high school in the Central Anatolian province of Konya last year, discovered his interest in science as a child.

The joint presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance and chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has reiterated his vow to appoint 100,000 teachers if elected in the next elections and recruit officials based on their merit.

Neighbors rescue a one-and-a-half-year-old girl from a house in deplorable conditions in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, as the Family and Social Services Ministry has announced that the child will be taken under protection.

Prosecutors are seeking up to 15 years in jail for an employee who provided a fake medical certificate with four-day sick leave to have a vacation in the southern province of Mersin, a popular tourist hotspot.

A parliamentary panel has begun deliberations over the headscarf bill amid ongoing disagreements between the government and the opposition parties.

The Turkish parliament's Constitutional Commission completed the first round of the talks late Jan. 19 with the plan to continue deliberations on Jan. 24.

A group of high school students in the Central Anatolian province of Konya has developed an electrical and solar-powered compost machines.

The machines developed by high school students in Konya to raise awareness about "zero waste" and prevent environmental pollution started to be used in schools throughout the country.