Lycaonia

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has vowed to support farmers if his party is elected in the June 7 general elections during a campaign stop in the Central Anatolian province of Konya. 

Turkish police raided multiple locations on May 22 in at least 19 provinces, while carrying out a ?parallel structure? investigation, detaining as many as 20 people, including several businessmen and a former police chief. Raids have mostly been centered in Konya, a central Anatolian province.

Pumping pressurized air into a friend's backside is apparently a prank not as rare as many people may think, particularly in Turkey, as seen by the latest potentially fatal incident.

Cannonballs from the 15th century period of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II have been unearthed during recent archaeological excavations in a castle on the Takkeli Mount of the Central Anatolian province of Konya, which was once the capital of the Anatolian Seljuk state.

The "Science Tunnel" exhibition has been opened in the Central Anatolian province of Konya to mark the end of the 2014 German-Turkish Year of Science.

Two pilots have died after a Turkish Air Force F-4E crashed in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on the morning of March 5, the second such accident in less than two weeks.

An F-4E aircraft that took off for a training flight at 09.00 from Eskisehir airbase crashed one hour later in Konya, the Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement on its website.  

Weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's "16 Turkish warriors" hit international headlines, several candidates have launched Ottoman-themed campaigns to be nominated for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the upcoming parliamentary elections.