Mehmetbey University

Surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman's Gökçeseki village have boosted the idea that the ancient city was the health center of the Ta?eli region. 

Best known for coal, the ground beneath the southern Anatolian district of Ermenek is continuing to reveal priceless artifacts from humanity's prehistoric era, as well as more recent ancient civilizations.

A Turkish court has said that ?slanderous and insulting? slogans cannot be considered freedom of speech, in a ruling on the 11-month jail sentence given to an academic for chanting slogans against then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an during a rally.