Above ground, the Cappadocia region is a UNESCO world heritage site in Turkey that attracts millions of visitors every year. The sky is regularly polka-dotted with colorful air balloons, their riders ...

Beneath the soft volcanic rock of central Turkey lies a labyrinth of carved rooms, stables, chapels and storage halls that ...

Archeologists in Turkey have discovered an almost 2000-year-old underground city in the southeastern province of Mardin. The subterranean complex in modern Midyat was unearthed two years ago, when ...

Istanbul maybe the city where continents meet, but it’s also where they meat – its chaos of culinary influences defined by their myriad recipes for the famous Turkish kebab. It’s made a superstar out ...

Beneath the small town of Derinkuyu in central Turkey lies a city that most residents walked over for centuries without knowing it existed. Carved entirely by hand into soft volcanic rock, the ...

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An ancient city in Turkey, which dates back to the prehistoric Iron Age Urartian Kingdom in the ninth century BC, has been discovered thanks to treasure hunters. Turkish archaeologist and researcher, ...

In early 2024, an image shared on social media claimed that a man performing home renovations in Turkey discovered an ancient underground city. The claim had previously been shared on Reddit. This ...

Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul was hit by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, the US Geological Survey said, though no serious damage was immediately reported. Istanbul is home to about 16 million people ...