Sivas

The Sivas Massacre, an arson attack staged by an extremist mob on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Madımak Hotel that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel personnel, was commemorated on its 25th anniversary on July 2 in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas.

The construction of new "hobbit-style" terrace houses, seven kilometers from the city center in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas, is almost complete.

Storks have flown back to their nest with the arrival of spring, after their nest was moved last year from the roof of a middle school to the roof of an elementary school in the central Anatolian province of Sivas. Due to safety reasons, the 35-year-old nest was carefully moved to its new spot with a crane.

Construction work has commenced on the high-speed railway connecting the capital Ankara to the central Anatolian province of Sivas. 

A police academy in Turkey’s central Sivas province has been training candidates from various countries as part of cooperation agreements with their governments.

Afghan female police officer candidates trained by Turkish police department in Sivas

One Turkish man says he is determined to make it into the book of Guinness World Records by accomplishing his life-long dream of “making” the biggest döner kebab in the world, weighing three tons. Hakan Soysal, at 42-year-old father of three from the Central Anatolian province of Sivas, has already been accepted as a pre-nominee to the list, Doğan News Agency reported on Feb. 7.

Police in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas have caught two Iranian women carrying 2.345 kilograms of methamphetamine in their luggage on an inter-city bus.

Hobbit houses in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas have been getting popular lately and are expected to lure visitors from the Far East. The cottages are set to become a part of a holiday village

The Sivas Massacre, an arson attack staged by radical Islamists on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Madımak Hotel that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel personnel, was commemorated on its 24th anniversary on July 2 in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas.