Turkey
Rhythm of art to beat at Atatürk Culture Center
The Türk Telekom Opera Hall in Istanbul's Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) will host the leading names in the world of art during the Beyoğlu Cultural Road Festival, organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry from May 28 to June 12 this year.
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Anatolian Pars’ taped after decade
An Anatolian Pars, an endangered leopard subspecies of Iranian Pars, has been spotted for the first time in a decade, the provincial directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks in the eastern province of Van has announced.
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400,000 Europeans visit Turkey for health tourism
Turkey is becoming a major player in global health tourism, attracting tens of thousands of people around the world, most of them from Europe, with revenues reaching over $1 billion.
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Turkey ready to send first Turk to space
Turkey has officially started the Turkish Space Traveler and Science Mission project, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on May 23.
"We are officially starting the process of sending a Turkish citizen to space, within the scope of our National Space Program," Erdoğan said during a speech after the cabinet meeting.
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Foreign tourist arrivals leap 226 percent in April
Some 2.6 million foreign tourists visited Turkey in April, pointing to a strong 226 percent increase from a year ago.
Since the start of the year, foreign tourist arrivals have recorded three-digit increases on an annual basis. In January, foreign tourist visits rose by 151 percent, while in February and March, they grew by 187 percent and 130 percent, respectively.
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Istanbul hosts nearly 3 mln tourists in three months
Istanbul has seen an influx of both local and international visitors in the first three months of 2022, with foreign tourist arrivals in the city rising 136 percent from a year ago.
Armenian church in Diyarbakır reopens after 7 years
Following seven years of renovation work, St. Giragos Church in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır is now open to offer religious services once again.
The church, heavily damaged by PKK terrorists in 2015, was reopened with a ceremony attended by Turkish Culture Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.
Russian musician turns to east after war broke out
Russian songs resonate throughout the streets in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir as 24-year-old Ivan Reznichenko plays his guitar to earn his daily bread.
He was paying a visit to a friend in Turkey's southwestern resort town of Bodrum when Russian troops entered into Ukrainian territories on Feb. 24.
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Akar says Turkish Navy is ‘on alert’, accuses Greece of ‘provocations’
Straight on the heels of the recent barrage of Turkish violations of Greek airspace, with flights over large, inhabited Aegean islands such as Rhodes and Kalymnos and the Imia rock islets (that led the two countries to the brink of war in 1996), and two strongly-worded Greek foreign ministry demarches to Ankara's ambassador to Athens, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar unleashed yet another a
Turkey tallest country in Europe, data shows
With its large metropolises growing at high rates, both horizontally and vertically, Turkey has become the champion of skyscrapers in the European region, according to a prominent non-profit data provider.
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