state-run Anadolu news agency

Restoration work is being carried out at the 2,100-year-old Temple of Hecate in Lagina, a center of ancient pagan beliefs located in the southwestern province of Muğla.

Greek police have arrested a Turkish national, the suspected leader of a criminal group wanted by Ankara for a range of crimes including manslaughter, Greek police and intelligence sources said on Wednesday.

Police acted on an international warrant and arrested the 29-year old man on Friday last week following an initial tipoff by the Turkish intelligence service.

12 people were killed on June 17 after a dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey's western coast, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, adding that 31 others had been rescued.

With relations between Athens and Ankara on a downturn, Turkey warned on Saturday that there will be a "heavy price" to pay for "provocations" in the Aegean, the Mediterranean or Cyprus.

"All should know that provocations in the Aegean, Mediterranean and Cyprus will have no effect," Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Saturday, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.

Turkey will not tolerate "provocations" in the Aegean, the Mediterranean or Cyprus, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Saturday.

"All should know that provocations in the Aegean, Mediterranean and Cyprus will have no effect," Akar was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.

"Or the price will be heavy," Akar added, according to the report.

AFP - Turkey on Friday threatened to respond if the United States levied further sanctions over the detention of an American pastor which has sparked a diplomatic standoff and battered the Turkish currency.

Twenty-four people were killed and hundreds injured when a train packed with weekend passengers derailed in northwest Turkey due to ground erosion afer heavy rains, officials said Monday.

Turkey's TAEK atomic energy authority on April 2 granted Russian builder Rosatom a construction license to start work on the first unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has described a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Greece on Thursday and Friday as "a chance to take bold steps forward," saying that the two Aegean neighbors must signal their desire for a resumption of negotiations to reunite ethnically-split Cyprus.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be the first Turkish president to visit Greece in 65 years, the country's deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said on Thursday, adding he expected the trip to improve bilateral ties between Athens and Ankara.