News archive of January 2021

Two spearheads believed to be around 6,000 years old have been handed to the İpekyolu Museum in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, the city's chamber of commerce and industry announced in a statement on Dec. 30.

According to the statement, one of the spearheads was found in a tunnel construction site in the Ortahisar district and the other in a second-hand shop in the city center.

The 2020 excavations in the ancient city of Anavarza, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List as it bears the cultural traces of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Sassanid and Ottoman periods, have been completed. New findings in the ancient city in the southern province of Adana's Kozan district have caused excitement among the archaeologists.

Turkey's tourist hotspot Cappadocia bid farewell to 2020 on the year's last day, as its famous hot air balloons offered picturesque views with the full moon. (AA Photo)

Turkish people are looking at the future with hope after a difficult year marked by the pandemic as they are preparing to welcome 2021 under the strict coronavirus measures, including a four-day lockdown.

Turkey is under a nationwide curfew spanning the traditional New Year's holiday that has started on Dec. 31 until early Jan. 4 as part of measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The curfew has begun on Thursday at 9 p.m. and end at 5 a.m. local time on Monday.

Έληξε η μεταβατική περίοδος που είχε οριστεί με τη Συμφωνία Αποχώρησης - Το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο θα είναι «ανοιχτό, γενναιόδωρο, εξωστρεφές, διεθνιστικό και υπέρ των ελεύθερων συναλλαγών», δήλωσε ο Μπόρις Τζόνσον

The road to "Freedom" - as the Greek government has dubbed its coronavirus vaccination drive - promises to be a bumpy one. We have already learned that Greece will receive a much smaller number of jabs in January than originally anticipated.