Süleyman Demirel University

Businesses should hire employees based on their star signs, a Turkish academic has suggested in his thesis project submitted to the Süleyman Demirel University in the western province of Isparta.

The storks, which are the subject of many stories, songs, poems and proverbs in Turkish culture, create colorful images during their migration to the Göller Yöresi (the region of lakes). 

Yanartaş, a naturally occurring fire that burns constantly in Çıralı in the southern province of Antalya's Kemer district, is connected with the natural gas beds in the eastern Mediterranean, scientists have discovered.

Some 3,974 public officials were dismissed with two new state of emergency decrees published in the Official Gazette on April 29. 

A total of 50 people, including a former university rector, have been detained in western Turkey for having links to the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (FETÖ), a group accused of being formed and headed by U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to undermine the state from within.

This year's excavations in the ancient city of Pisidia Antiocheia have unearthed a church that was discovered last year, bringing to four the number of Christian religious centers that have been discovered so far at the siteA church that was found last year in the ancient city of Pisidia Antiocheia in the southern province of Isparta's Yalvaç district has been completely unearthed during this y

This season's excavations have started in the ancient city of Pisidia in the southern province of Isparta's Yalvaç district. 

The head of the excavations, Süleyman Demirel University's Professor Mehmet Özhanl?, said this year's work would focus on the Temple of Men, which is valuable enough to enter the UNESCO World Heritage List.