Lavrov Meets Erdogan - Ankara

Lavrov Meets Erdogan - Ankara

Handout photo show Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (3rd L) at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey on February 24, 2025. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, and Akif Cagatay Kilic, the president's chief foreign policy and security adviser, also attended the meeting with Russian foreign delegation. Photo by Turkish Presidency Press Office via DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Syria's Interim President Ahmed al-Shara Visits Turkey

Syria's Interim President Ahmed al-Shara Visits Turkey

Handout - Turkish Presidential Advisor Akif Cagatay Kilic (L), Turkish Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun (C) and Director of the National Intelligence Organization, Ibrahim Kalin (2nd R) welcome Syrian interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa (R) with an official welcoming ceremony at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on February 04, 2025. Photo by Mustafa Kamaci/ Turkish Presidential Press Service via DIA Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Turkey: Fire Guts Carpet Factory In Istanbul

Smoke covered the sky in Istanbul as a fire broke out at a carpet factory in Mehmet Akif district of Küçükçekmece on Friday, March 29. The cause of the fire is unknown as of writing.

9-mln-year-old animal fossils discovered in SW Türkiye

STORY: 9-mln-year-old animal fossils discovered in SW Türkiye DATELINE: Sept. 14, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:42 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. photos of people carrying out archaeological excavations in Denizli, Türkiye (ihlas news agency) 2. photos of fossils (ihlas news agency) STORYLINE: A group of researchers has discovered fossils of animals that lived 9 million years ago at an excavation site in southwestern Türkiye, state-run broadcaster TRT reported on Wednesday. The findings were the fossils of a species from the Felidae family, a porcupine, and several birds, it said. The discoveries were achieved this year as part of an ongoing excavation by a group of researchers in the Tavas district of Denizli province since 2017. Ahmet Ihsan Aytek, an anthropologist from Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, who leads the research, said the porcupine is a scarce species in Anatolia, and discovering its fossil is a great success. "We found that the skull and jaw bones were pr